Comments by "robs2020" (@sbor2020) on "Mark Dolan: History will judge the lockdown cheerleaders" video.

How are they trying to provoke a war with Russia?
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@jasonmussett2129 I don't watch Sky and BBC news. Nevertheless, it is worrying for people in the Ukraine. From the UK side, do you think it is too much to ask to have a consistent and informed position from the UK government? They claim to "stand shoulder to shoulder" one moment and pull troops out the next. Saying one thing and doing another is typical. And sending Liz Truss to do the negotiations! Like watching a duck doing algebra. That Rostov/Voronezh might not seem like nothing much, but when you turn it around and a Russian minister saying that they would never accept the autonomy of Kent and Hampshire, and moving troops from Aldershot to Dover was unacceptable. How foolish would Brits see them?
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Containing the virus is a pyrrhic victory, but the losses are not as great as not containing it.
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@Hapotecario Flue? Flu! For over two years now it seems you have not understood the basic assunption that covid-19 virus is more contagious than flu. Although there are similarities, in that they both are respiratory infections, what is a vitally important difference is that the deathrate of covid-19 is substantially higher (possibly 10 times or more) than that of most strains of the flu. Some estimate that 290,000 to 650,000 die from flu each year, whereas 5.8 million people have died from covid since the pandemic. But you will not understand, will you? A conspiracist has too much invested in the conspiracy version of events. Cognitive bias is a matter of course. You will never listen to the experts other than those that reinforce your view of the world. You still don't understand?
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@anthonygibbs3243 Source?
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You are seemingly indifferent to the 158,603 deaths from this virus.
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@MadderMel You make some good points but using terms like "lockdown lovers" is clearly unpleasant.Why do you think people "love" lockdowns so much? You are foolish if you genuinely think this. Then there are those that seem to think everyone was free until covid. Containing the virus is a pyrrhic victory, but the losses are not as great as not containing it.
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@francescostello1377 Classic conspiracist bingo. "Do your own research", "Wake up"(or "sheeple"), "MSM", "brainwashed". Four ticks! Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . Charles Dickens.
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@francescostello1377 By "us" you mean conspiracists. By "alternative media" do you mean GB News? Run by off-shore billionaires that have "access" (read make donations for pushing their agenda) to the the UK government, GB News has an agenda like any other mainstream media. Take climate change denial as an example, GB News and others on the right bleet claims made by academics that whore themselves for the climate change deniers with vast vested interests in maintaining the fossil fuel industries, such as the Koch brothers (Koch Industries / Cato Institute). Incidentally, the very same that "invest" in the "alternative" media like GB News.
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Wishing you good health. It's terrible what you and too many cancer patients must go though.Also there are those have sufferred from covid. My mum's neighbour was in intensive care for two weeks before passing. This is not a "common cold" or a "bout of flu"
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Do you know the difference between SAGE and Independent SAGE? If you did then you would know for one thing that Mitchie is a member of Independent SAGE. Mistake made, but will any learning take place? Out of the current 12 members, of INDEPENDENT SAGE three are viologists (including the chair Prof. Pillay), two are Public Health specialists (including Scally), two in health psychology (including Mitchie) and five others of scientific research, including applied mathematics. This group is not affiliated with SAGE, nor the Government.
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