{"id":24614,"date":"2020-09-23T00:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24614"},"modified":"2020-09-23T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:17:31","slug":"this-is-the-problem-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24614","title":{"rendered":"THIS Is The Problem – Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COVID-19The BBC has an article titled \u2018Covid: Is it time we learnt to live with the virus?<\/a>\u2019 It also has a comments section open in that story.<\/p>\n

At the same time, there is another article resulting from today\u2019s government announcements<\/a> which says that if we don\u2019t do something, we could be looking at 50,000 new cases a day by mid-October, and 200 or more deaths per day once that stage of the increase kicks in.<\/p>\n

Comments left in the first article include the following:<\/p>\n

\n[boycie] Just let everyone catch it. The whole country cannot be held back once again for the sake of the few.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n[Nick B] \u2026it’s very sad that people have died from this. But locking down and unlocking down continually is no answer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n[Andrew C] \u2026lock yourself down if you want to but don’t expect everyone else to do the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n[Point_of_view] Do you really think it is people partying and protesting outside that is causing the bulk of transmissions? The main mechanism of transmission has been in people’s homes, inside.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n[Ben] Is it time we learnt to live with it? Yes. Further lockdowns are going to do so much more damage than good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n[Richard] Yes, lockdown doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a very small sample, but it illustrates the crass stupidity and selfishness of what is quite possibly the majority of the British public \u2013 the same public that has put us where we are with the second wave right now.<\/p>\n

The first commenter, \u2018boycie\u2019, fails to recognise that it is already proven that you can catch COVID-19 again. It has also been shown that resistance (\u2018immunity\u2019) in those who have had it begins to wane after just 2-3 months. In other words, there is no such thing as \u2018immunity\u2019 at all \u2013 it is so short-lived that it is of no practical benefit. He also fails to recognise that anyone who got ill the first time may well have suffered damage that means they\u2019re now one of those with an \u2018underlying condition\u2019. For them, a second infection will probably not be as mild as the first. This character, \u2018boycie\u2019, therefore appears to be completely happy to send his parents or grandparents to their graves just so he<\/strong> can carry on like nothing is wrong \u2013 and all because of his stupidity and ignorance.<\/p>\n

As I have said many times, if my<\/strong> parents caught COVID-19, it would almost definitely kill them. If it didn’t on its first try, it would on its second. In a civilised world, you do not play that card on purpose. You do not even consider it \u2013 even for the short time this government did at the start of the pandemic, with its \u2018herd immunity\u2019 idea. Because we now know that \u2018herd immunity\u2019 from natural infection with COVID-19 does not exist, even if the ignorant \u2018boycie\u2019 types of this world are still stuck in the past and believe that it does.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nick B\u2019 and \u2018Richard\u2019 demonstrate ignorance in a different way. The chart at the top of this article shows the infection rates for the duration of the pandemic up until nearly the end of September in the UK. It seems fairly obvious to me that if you don\u2019t do anything to try and limit how something spreads, there is no way that a thing the size of a COVID-19 virus has any ability to choose a cyclical or wave-like approach, such as we are seeing. It just spreads wherever it can. Therefore, almost the whole reason the numbers fell after the first peak was because<\/strong> action was taken to try and limit it. And almost the whole reason it is rising again now is because<\/strong> that action was reversed last month, and people who are theoretically far smarter than a COVID-19 virus started booking holidays to Spain and Greece (and other places where it was prevalent), and caused whole flights to have to be quarantined as they shipped it back to the UK. Almost the whole reason it never fell to zero was precisely because<\/strong> of people like \u2018Nick B\u2019, \u2018Richard\u2019, and the prats living it up in Zante or Ibiza, who most likely flouted or ignored the rules that were brought in even in the early days.<\/p>\n

\u2018Andrew C\u2019 probably couldn\u2019t even spell \u2018epidemiology\u2019, let alone have the first clue what it involved. If any individual is going to dodge receiving a COVID-19 bullet, they have a much better chance if there are fewer bullets flying around to start with. \u2018Andrew C\u2019s\u2019 solution is like saying everyone can run around going \u2018yee-haaa\u2019 and shooting at whatever they want, and anyone who doesn\u2019t like it is at fault, and should stay at home and try to keep out the way. That\u2019s fine, as long as there are no stray bullets – like grocery delivery drivers and postal workers \u2013 going from house to house.<\/p>\n

\u2018Point_of_view\u2019, like all the others, doesn\u2019t like being locked down or told what to do, so he tries to justify that with cherry-picked details. How the hell does he think the virus gets into a home setting in the first place? It doesn\u2019t just magically appear out of thin air – it has to be brought in. People like these commenters, who think they know more than the scientific experts, are the cause. They\u2019re outside, pissing around like there\u2019s nothing wrong, nipping off to the Balearics, then coming back and not isolating. They pick it up, then they take it home. The whole household becomes infected. But then, if any of that household has the same ridiculous beliefs as the commenters here, they<\/strong> will also go out, and the same cycle repeats in multiple households. It\u2019s how exponential spread of the virus occurs, and is exactly like what that prat, Layton Migas, did<\/a> when he came back from Ibiza, didn\u2019t isolate (when he should have), and caused Bolton to be locked down.<\/p>\n

\u2018Ben\u2019 is one of those whose life revolves around money \u2013 his<\/strong> money – and nothing else, and who resents any restrictions. He is prepared to put that money above the lives of the 50,000 who have already died, and the additional deaths that are inevitable as a result of his \u2018I don\u2019t wanna\u2019 approach.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what it comes down to with all these people. They just \u2018don\u2019t wanna\u2019, so they come out with these pathetic and uninformed excuses.<\/p>\n

The country is in a f***ing mess for all sorts of reasons. Right now, COVID-19 is the biggest reason. And \u2013 right now \u2013 there is no ideal solution. The government is trying to balance letting people die, with letting businesses (and individuals\u2019 finances) collapse. It is physically impossible to support both sides of that equation, and I don\u2019t envy anyone who has to try. Right now, there is no solution,<\/strong> and I wish idiots like \u2018boycie\u2019, \u2018 Nick B\u2019, \u2018Andrew C\u2019, \u2018Point_of_view\u2019, \u2018Ben\u2019, and \u2018Richard\u2019 (plus the millions of others who think they know best \u2013 even though they can\u2019t spell or use good grammar) would stop trying.<\/p>\n

For me, if it was a choice between my business or my parents\u2019 lives, my parents would come out tops every time. I just have to accept that there are people who are so materialistic (or whatever their motivation) that they see it differently.<\/p>\n

We need a vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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