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Noivous
04-07-20, 11:32
Wise words from CS Lewis:

In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

KK77
06-07-20, 00:15
Fine words and if only people could see beyond the fear of suffering and death. But this is an anxiety forum, after all, full of frightened people "huddled together" on a sinking ship, drifting in a never-ending storm of conditioned fear.

So welcome aboard. We'll be going down soon!

MyNameIsTerry
06-07-20, 05:00
We'll be going down soon!

Surely dinner and a movie first though...:whistles:

KK77
06-07-20, 13:28
https://youtu.be/UDoP-Sgimvg

pulisa
06-07-20, 13:52
Surely dinner and a movie first though...:whistles:

Titanic?

pulisa
06-07-20, 13:53
https://youtu.be/UDoP-Sgimvg

Could Dr Buttar be a super-spreader though?

AntsyVee
06-07-20, 18:39
Where's grandpa?

pulisa
06-07-20, 19:47
Where's grandpa?

At the pub?

AntsyVee
06-07-20, 19:51
At the pub?

LOL probably

Gary A
06-07-20, 21:02
Where's grandpa?

Outside howling at the moon?

KK77
06-07-20, 21:46
Could Dr Buttar be a super-spreader though?
Spreader of truth? Stranger things have happened I guess :winks:

KK77
06-07-20, 21:54
Grandpa wears his fave shirt to rant about "fear porn" and censorship...



https://youtu.be/HIPLx1eOdhQ

Gary A
06-07-20, 23:26
Claims the coronavirus is being used to scaremonger, equates his battle for “truth” to world war 3.

Unreal.

AntsyVee
07-07-20, 01:18
Now, now, Gary...let grandpa tell his stories!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihqjVseL2k

MyNameIsTerry
07-07-20, 05:35
Grandpa wears his fave shirt to rant about "fear porn" and censorship...



https://youtu.be/HIPLx1eOdhQ

That shirt reminds me of watching Challenge when old episodes of Strike It Lucky are on :roflmao:

MyNameIsTerry
07-07-20, 05:37
Titanic?

Ooh yes please, the captain came from my city and we have a Titanic brewery :yesyes:

It was always funny years ago when 'famous sons' of my city were reeled off: Captain Smith, Stanley Matthews, Reginald Mitchell and...Malcolm from TV series 'Watching' :roflmao:

pulisa
07-07-20, 08:10
That shirt reminds me of watching Challenge when old episodes of Strike It Lucky are on :roflmao:

That shirt reminds me of Elmer the Elephant?

pulisa
07-07-20, 08:12
Ooh yes please, the captain came from my city and we have a Titanic brewery :yesyes:

It was always funny years ago when 'famous sons' of my city were reeled off: Captain Smith, Stanley Matthews, Reginald Mitchell and...Malcolm from TV series 'Watching' :roflmao:

Don't forget Robbie Williams?!

FrankT
07-07-20, 22:32
Are you telling me that WW3 really is imminent?!

MyNameIsTerry
08-07-20, 04:47
Don't forget Robbie Williams?!

We keep trying but the annoying git won't go away. Anyway he's a Port Vale fan so...:biggrin:

pulisa
08-07-20, 08:00
Are you telling me that WW3 really is imminent?!

That's so Pre-Corona..

Hollow
08-07-20, 12:27
Are you telling me that WW3 really is imminent?!

WW3 began a long time ago, it's a war on our minds. We're now under a sustained psychological attack from governments who are being controlled by Oligarchs.


Thousands protest in Belgrade as Serbia reimposes Covid-19 curfew.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=249&v=480giWTcElw&feature=emb_title

Scass
08-07-20, 13:03
Of course we are Hollow.


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Gary A
08-07-20, 14:13
WW3 began a long time ago, it's a war on our minds. We're now under a sustained psychological attack from governments who are being controlled by Oligarchs.

Just because you want something to be true doesn’t mean that it is, Batman.

Lencoboy
08-07-20, 15:36
Are you telling me that WW3 really is imminent?!

I'm pretty sure that the so-called 'War on Terror' (post-9/11-present) could technically be regarded as 'World War Three', that has been going on for almost 20 years now!!

And most of us are still here!!

Lencoboy
08-07-20, 15:43
WW3 began a long time ago, it's a war on our minds. We're now under a sustained psychological attack from governments who are being controlled by Oligarchs.

Thousands protest in Belgrade as Serbia reimposes Covid-19 curfew.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=249&v=480giWTcElw&feature=emb_title

The Serbian govt responding to threats from an ongoing global virus pandemic hardly amounts to psychological attack and dictatorship IMO, as they are probably only acting in the best of interests of everyone's safety.

FrankT
08-07-20, 16:57
WW3 began a long time ago, it's a war on our minds. We're now under a sustained psychological attack from governments who are being controlled by Oligarchs.

Well that's not really a world war, it's more a sort of... power play.

AntsyVee
08-07-20, 17:25
You know, I will say this for our boy, Hollow. At least he's always encouraging us to think for ourselves. In an age where I know at least here in the US, media outlets are pretty much owned by 6 companies, it is a good reminder.

MyNameIsTerry
08-07-20, 17:36
Well that's not really a world war, it's more a sort of... power play.

I'm glad you didn't fall straight into an anxiety trap through Hollow's paranoid scaremongering.

fishman65
08-07-20, 17:46
I was in Asda this morning and the only person wearing a mask. I bet everyone else thought 'hey look at that weirdo wearing a mask'. But then its all over anyway, done and dusted, old news.

Lencoboy
08-07-20, 19:17
I know I've said this before, but I thought the wearing of masks (in England) was still only compulsory on public transport at present.

AntsyVee
08-07-20, 19:35
I know I've said this before, but I thought the wearing of masks (in England) was still only compulsory on public transport at present.

Isn't there a government website that you all can check for the policies?

pulisa
08-07-20, 19:45
I was in Asda this morning and the only person wearing a mask. I bet everyone else thought 'hey look at that weirdo wearing a mask'. But then its all over anyway, done and dusted, old news.

You know it isn't and that's all that matters.

In Wales they are being told to prepare for a second wave. They learn from England's mistakes but hindsight is a fine thing.

MyNameIsTerry
09-07-20, 05:12
Isn't there a government website that you all can check for the policies?

Yep, the .gov site, NHS patient advice site, the media, local council sites, etc.

It's as Lenco says though. Facial coverings are optional other than certain circumstances such as public transport. Since we have devolved assemblies (except for England) this differs by country within the union.

They've always told us social distancing is the big one to adhere too. But as fishman says as they start easing up and some businesses are allowing down to 1m distancing some people will start easing up across the board. I've certainly been seeing it since we left the first lockdown stage and it's getting more of an afterthought to some. But how Many of them were in the group that never tried to follow the rules in the first place?

I just go with social distancing. If I was in a worse hit city I would be reconsidering facial coverings. But I've seen plenty of mask wearers just ignoring social distancing thinking the mask makes them immune. Some even just wearing gloves whilst getting close. Just stupidity basically, mask or no mask.