Masks

[mickeymacca]

BUT.....can you name ONE person on this planet who could have dealt successfully with this pandemic? NO. NO ONE can deal effectively with what is an invisible enemy. I'm no fan of BJ but I am reluctant to criticise him at the moment when no one else can do better.

jacinda ardern did and she did not destroy NZ as we know it!

And I can name a few more:

President Tsai Ing-wen

• Country: Taiwan (Republic of China)
• Population: 23,821,316
• Cases: 479
• Deaths: 7
• Deaths per 1 million of population: 0.3

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir

• Country: Iceland
• Population: 341,471
• Cases: 1,955
• Deaths: 10
• Deaths per 1 million of population: 29

Prime Minister Sanna Marin

• Country: Finland
• Population: 5,541,628
• Cases: 7,568
• Deaths: 331
• Deaths per 1 million of population: 60

Prime Minister Erna Solberg

• Country: Norway
• Population: 5,425,586
• Cases: 9,568
• Deaths: 256
• Deaths per 1 million of population: 47

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

• Country: Denmark
• Population: 5,794,334
• Cases: 14,442
• Deaths: 617
• Deaths per 1 million of population: 106

Chancellor Angela Merkel

• Country: Federal Republic of Germany
• Population: 83,811,990
• Cases: 216,878
• Deaths: 9,261
• Deaths per 1 million of population: 110

Along with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (deaths per 1 million of population: 4), the one thing all the leaders in the above list have in common is this: They acted early and they acted tough.

Oh, and they're all women.

Now compare the above list with this sh*thole country:

Prime Minister Boris the Knobhead

• Country: United Kingdumb
• Population: Mostly idiots
• Cases: A lot. Really, a lot.
• Deaths per 1 million of population: 686 (too goddamn much!)

SO WEAR AN EFFING MASK!

Yeah but apart from all of those, and any others that you haven't mentioned.

Love how the thread continues, despite this inconvenient response.

[Woody Guthrie]

Love how the thread continues, despite this inconvenient response.

The truth only has value to those that believe it, nobody believes anything anymore unless it confirms their underlying prejudice. It's just fake or media bias or a neoliberal conspiracy whatever the f**k that is.

If the apple had fallen on Newton's head today instead of understanding the forces of gravity he would have been looking to see who threw it. Civilisation is retreating, paranoia, intolerance and ignorance is driving us back to the caves.

It's a s**t state of affairs.

[mickeymacca]

I blame discussion forums, they embolden fuckwits......

[Woody Guthrie]

I blame discussion forums, they embolden fuckwits......

It was better when they just hung about the pub boring the s**t out of anyone who would listen, at least you could throw beer mats at them.

[sindba]

I blame discussion forums, they embolden fuckwits......

It was better when they just hung about the pub boring the s**t out of anyone who would listen, at least you could throw beer mats at them.

Agree.

But it's even worse than that, they're actually running the bloody country at the moment.

I'd be tempted to move to a nice sane European country, but the f*wits have taken that right away from me too!

[greengiant]

Love how the thread continues, despite this inconvenient response.

The truth only has value to those that believe it, nobody believes anything anymore unless it confirms their underlying prejudice. It's just fake or media bias or a neoliberal conspiracy whatever the f**k that is.

If the apple had fallen on Newton's head today instead of understanding the forces of gravity he would have been looking to see who threw it. Civilisation is retreating, paranoia, intolerance and ignorance is driving us back to the caves.

It's a s**t state of affairs.

Indeed. The film "Idiocracy" is becoming more true every day....

[SpacePhoenix]

Masks and gloves must help but the single most important thing is to wash your hands and gloves if you use them no point in wearing a mask if you take it of and dont wash your hands or gloves. Its spread the same as a cold and we all know how they go through an office so wash hands try not to be face to face if you are be two metres apart dont share cups etc. If we all keep washing hands and being a bit more careful then there is no reason we cant contain the virus. The mass gatherings have been a disgrace football fans music events protests they have all given the virus a good chance to spread.

I could probably count the number of people using the RM supplied hand sanitizer on 1 hand

A big part of the problem is that there's so much conflicting information coming out. It seems like all the experts/scientists call bullshit on the statements by all the other experts/scientists

[k979aaa]

I blame discussion forums, they embolden fuckwits......

Take a mirror and say that 100 times discussion this the basis of forums and society and in general human nature we all can agree to disagree on a forum can we not?

[grandypants]

Grossly overblown look at the stats, for example Melbourne has more or less implemented martial law, city of 6 MILLION deaths this week 15 WTF

[PostmanBitesDog]

city of 6 MILLION deaths this week

Almost. 5,078,193 as of the most recent count last year.

[PostmanBitesDog]

can you name ONE person on this planet who could have dealt successfully with this pandemic? NO. NO ONE can deal effectively with what is an invisible enemy.

jacinda ardern did and she did not destroy NZ as we know it!

And just to think, New Zealand has passed the 100 day mark since it eliminated the spread of COVID-19 in its country. (There were a small number of travelers who recently arrived in the country and were tested positive - and who left their quarantine earlier than necessary - but they've since been re-quarantined. )

Associated Press (August 9, 2020) ~ New Zealand Marks 100 Days of Virus Elimination

Looks like Ms. Ardern will storm through New Zealand's September 19th General Election with a landslide. Unlike the 2017 General Election, the Labour Party which she leads won't need the support of the coalition parties NZ First and the Green Party.

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Way to go, Jacinda!

[97gaz]

A one size fits all policy if masks were that f***ing good why were they not mandatory in March?

I don't think you've quite figured out how politicians operate yet, have you? This is how the conversation went in March.

Boris. "Dominic, We could really do with some masks to stop the spread of this virus. I mean lots of people are going to die. That's just what I've told the public"
Dominic "Tough, We haven't got any. Who cares anyway if a few Grannies die"
Boris. "Yeah I know that but the public are going to blame us. We'll look stupid"
Dominic "There's a guy who's an advisor to the Gov here. He says his firm of investment capitalists can get us a boatload really quickly. He'll do you a deal for £250M"
Boris. "Done. Cheap at half the price. I mean it's not as if it's my money, is it?" But what do I tell the public?"
Dominic. "Just do what you usually do. Tell them masks don't work. The public are thick anyway"
Boris. "Cushty"

Then in July when we've got tons of masks the public gets told they're important.

Politician school 101

[PostmanBitesDog]

Jeez, the British are really stupid.

Leicester, with a population of approximately 330,000, waited for two weeks and 944 positive cases of coronavirus and several coronavirus-related deaths before the Government placed the city into a lockdown.

Auckland, New Zealand, with a population of approximately 1.6 million recorded 4 coronavirus cases (all within the same family) yesterday, and the Government locksdown the country's largest city and places the rest of the country on Level Two restrictions. And the country of about 5 million has still had only 22 deaths thus far.

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