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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Neil O'Brien: Imperfec... · 0 replies · +1 points

Syphilis was untreatable for centuries. We laboured under all sorts of maladies, polio, syphilis, smallpox. Point is, people die of disease every year. When vaccines are available this virus will be as treatable as much else.

Remember the original reasons for lockdowns was to spare the NHS, well, that has been accomplished, no broken hospitals.

At some point people need to take responsibility for their own health. This isn't a Hollywood movie, Covid won't go into a freezer just before the final credits roll. Waiting to get rid of it entirely, we'll be waiting forever. I can understand government involvement when there is risk of collapsing the healthcare system completely - but nobody talks about that much any more.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Neil O'Brien: Imperfec... · 1 reply · +1 points

It's not in the government's remit to abolish death by virus. There will always be new viruses, new strains. Syphilis rode onto the scene in the 16th century, and we still have it today. It may well be with covid.

Ultimately now we have vaccines and once everybody at risk is vaccinated it's up to everybody to take responsibility for their own health - as is the norm with the many and varied ways in which you can die, in many cases avoidably. That's life.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - We wish the new Presid... · 2 replies · +1 points

He seems half senile already, not that that stopped Ronnie Ray Gun.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Toby Young: O'Brien is... · 0 replies · +1 points

I can still remember when the Net Neutrality debate in the US spilled over into Europe. The left was well on board with that.

Unfortunately net neutrality operates at a lower level than Twitter, down at the cables and the bits and the bytes, but ISPs are also private companies, so it's merely where in the tech stack you set 'all below this must be neutral', not if.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Toby Young: O'Brien is... · 1 reply · +1 points

You can take responsibility for your own health by getting vaccinated. It's primarily for your benefit, not that of other people.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Toby Young: O'Brien is... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is a bit more like it.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Neil O'Brien: Trumpism... · 0 replies · +1 points

At the end of the day, people will make their own decisions. You can't make it for them. It might seem irrational to you but it's not to them. I find this whole concept a bit suspicious, the Jehovah's Witnesses believe all sorts of crazy stuff but you're not complaining about them because nobody will touch religion. There's nothing special about religion, it's all the same melange of irrationality / different perspectives.

And clamping down on dissenting opinion will make them turn to samizdat style alt tech and quite justifiably engender a persecution complex in them. And there's nothing you can do about it. Entirely counterproductive.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Our survey. Almost thr... · 0 replies · +1 points

Cummings was no Establishment Tory. Which is what was needed to get an 80 seat majority.

He apparently had housing as his #1 priority after Brexit, seems like another vote winner to me, or is the Tory Party going to relapse into idle semi-competent complacency like it always seems to do if some rebel like Thatcher isn't giving them the boot?

I doubt a party of Allegra and Nut Nut are going to do much radical, unless it's radical Blairism.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Alexander Stafford: Th... · 0 replies · +1 points

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth gets its boots on.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Alexander Stafford: Th... · 1 reply · +1 points

Quite. And I see the same Remainers on here today, already forgetting what happened to Theresa May.

A good thrashing at the polls only seems to last about six months with these people.

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