Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
God, don't get me started on people smoking, especially those who sadly still persist in doing it around young children seemingly without a care in the world and coming out with the usual feeble excuse 'Passive smoking never did previous generations of children any harm', yadda yadda yadda.
My dad reckons it has probably always done kids harm in actual fact, but we didn't really start to become aware of it until the latter half of the 80s at the very earliest, and even then it wasn't taken really seriously until the latter half of the 2000s and beyond.
And yes, the media (for better or worse) barely seem to give Covid a look-in of late, despite the fact that it was a genuine threat in 2020-21, especially pre-vaccines, and daily briefings from Downing Street, daily numbers for cases, hospitalisations, deaths, blah blah blah.