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The problem is that it would be difficult to prove the source of any fatal infection. Was it from the transferred patients, or was it e.g. from the care home staff who came in daily from outside?

Covid: Has lockdown led to bad behaviour?

Sad to say, I think the answer is "yes". My Union magazine has been reporting on assaults to theatre workers (made worse since drinking was allowed in the auditorium) and I have certainly noticed a steep decline in road craft since people were encouraged back to the offices.

Driver behaviour is a hobby horse of mine. I think it's because during lockdown only the idiot drivers were out, they could drive even worse because roads were empty and carried on the same way.

davidjay wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 3:15 pm Driver behaviour is a hobby horse of mine. I think it's because during lockdown only the idiot drivers were out, they could drive even worse because roads were empty and carried on the same way.

Errrr... What about those of us who *had* to go to work because we simply couldn't WFH?

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 3:43 pm

davidjay wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 3:15 pm Driver behaviour is a hobby horse of mine. I think it's because during lockdown only the idiot drivers were out, they could drive even worse because roads were empty and carried on the same way.

Errrr... What about those of us who *had* to go to work because we simply couldn't WFH?

Sorry, I should have said 'mainly'. A lot of us, myself included, had to go out sometimes but when I did, I would look at the traffic queues and think "They can't all be essential workers or visiting their housebound grandparents".

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 2:46 pm Covid: Has lockdown led to bad behaviour?

Sad to say, I think the answer is "yes". My Union magazine has been reporting on assaults to theatre workers (made worse since drinking was allowed in the auditorium) and I have certainly noticed a steep decline in road craft since people were encouraged back to the offices.

Something that the lockdown forever brigade should think about.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 3:57 pm
Something that the lockdown forever brigade should think about.

They won't because they are a creation of the antivax conspiriloons.
NB not everything Piers Corbyn tells you is true.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 4:32 pm

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 3:57 pm
Something that the lockdown forever brigade should think about.

They won't because they are a creation of the antivax conspiriloons.
NB not everything Piers Corbyn tells you is true.

I'm no Piers Corbyn fan merely pointing out that they're those who think we should just lockdown every time there's a covid outbreak. They often ignore the consequences and effects of lockdown which we've seen first hand with the growth of conspiracy theories and the effects on people's mental health and bad behaviour we've seen. I have no love for the anti-vaxxers but the lockdown forever types are just as bad in my view.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 4:52 pm

Oboogie wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 4:32 pm

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 3:57 pm
Something that the lockdown forever brigade should think about.

They won't because they are a creation of the antivax conspiriloons.
NB not everything Piers Corbyn tells you is true.

I'm no Piers Corbyn fan merely pointing out that they're those who think we should just lockdown every time there's a covid outbreak. They often ignore the consequences and effects of lockdown which we've seen first hand with the growth of conspiracy theories and the effects on people's mental health and bad behaviour we've seen. I have no love for the anti-vaxxers but the lockdown forever types are just as bad in my view.

Who are "they"?

The lockdown brigade, innit?

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 10:34 pm The lockdown brigade, innit?

Yes, but who are they? I've heard anti-vaxxers/COVID deniers talk about them but they never say who these people are. Do they really exist? I've never come across them.

I believe they live under the bed, like all boogeymen

I'm losing track of all the brigades.

But if they're organised into brigades, they should be easy to trace, there must be a ton of admin creating a paper trail.

Four regiments in a brigade. The milk delivery must be huge. Just ask Express Dairies.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 11:09 pm I'm losing track of all the brigades.

Yes. All of us Woke people seem to be well organised into miltary style units. And they’all have rheir own specialisations. No uniforms, though. This calls for a mutiny.

I'm not bothered about a uniform, but I fancy a cap badge.

I want a shabraque.

But you don't (as far as I know) have a horse to hang it on and you do need a beast for a shabraque.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 12:40 am I want a shabraque.

I'll settle for a woggle.