Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:09 am
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JAFO wrote:@eltonioni - you've drawn me back in.
I completely agree that it is possible for people to dodge the rules if they should wish to do so but that is not a reason for not having rules. I know where I can probably get away with driving at 120mph, thereby putting myself and innocent bystanders at risk, that doesn't mean that I will do it. Most people won't.
The rules are there so that the majority of people who do follow them will have some impact on the possible spread of the virus. Of course they're not perfect, nothing is in this world but perfect is the enemy of good enough. I am glad that the organisers of Blackpool Rocks are doing all they can to protect those who wish to visit.
On the other point, if I don't choose to have a Yellow Fever jab I can't go to various parts of the world, if I don't choose to have a COVID jab then I can't go to nightclubs or, it would seem, Blackpool Rocks. Quite a reasonable parallel.
I hear you but I still say that these rules and Covid Passports are an exercise in kidding ourselves. Meantime, government / health officials impose huge restrictions on individuals and society in general for little to no medical effect but creating a whole new set of problems and issues. It could take years to unwind these impositions and it might take citizens kicking the carp out of politicians for two or three or maybe four really painful elections with society at each other's throats in the meantime. And, that's if it can even be unwound. Think Brexit was divisive? We ain't seen nothing yet and this time it will be young, fit, unvaccinated taxpayers living hand to mouth in rented accommodation who will be telling politicians what they want to do to the Boomers to strip their assets in return for votes.
Unless vaccines are the exit strategy we have to accept that we will have our life increasingly curtailed by dictates with increasingly opaque and baseless reasons.
If vaccines are the exit strategy we have to accept that they work and start giving up all these impositions, from masks to terms of entry.
Let's take another aspect of these Passports. How do you feel about the undocumented people in our society who can't get one? There might be a million of those people, maybe more and none of them can get a legitimate Covid Passport because they need to be registered with a GP and despite various open-door policies and amnesties they just aren't. Now you might not care that they (supposedly) can't get into Twickenham (although the Wembley farce says otherwise) but you might care that they are in your great aunt's home as her daily carer because they got the job using a bunch of easily faked paperwork with an employer that doesn't look too closely. It's just another of the gaping holes in this massive Swiss cheese.
In other news, my earlier hunch that cases will be down in a couple of weeks is looking like a reasonable bet right now. Let's hope so.
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