Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Huge boat parade to celebrate Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl win - BBC News" video.

Superspreader event. Morons.
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Totally agree. Add Texas to that too.
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@johnboydTx Yeah, that's because the wall was in the wrong part of Texas.
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@Nick ______ Every time you drive on the roads , someone is imposing their will over you for the greater good. Every time you pay your taxes, or don't operate machinery drunk, or obey ANY law, you are having someone's will imposed. If you don't like it, go live in the hills with the other animals, but if you want the benefits of living in a society, you make some compromises for the greater good. Only in America do you have this childish worship of freedom over all else. Grow up.
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@Nick ______ I am a massive advocate of freedom, but not at any cost. My freedom end where it negatively affects others, so long as the sentiment is reciprocal. America is not REMOTELY pro abortion. The GOP and religious right are constantly trying to repeal it. It has just about survived this long, but with the appalling supreme court you have now, I wouldn't bank on that staying the case for long. No, there's absolutely NO debate about the virus. The mortality rate is lowish, but the cost to hospitals in terms of preventing them dealing with other patients is high. And that's if I didn't take into account the repugnant state of the healthcare service and paying for illness. The entire civilised world has collectively done the calculations and concluded that allowing the virus to run unchecked is the worst possible scenarie. The only country that tried an alternative quickly gave up. Then there's America, where thaere are currently what? Almost half a million dead? And no, I don't say that safe is ALWAYS good. Of course not, but when your behaviour negatively affects others, you have a responsibility to your fellow citizens as well.
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@Nick ______ If we were going to argue from nature, we'd all be naked living in holes and dying in our 40s from rotten teeth or cold. If you care only about what's natural, get off the computer right now and turn off your heating and lights. What the hell does our inability to handle nature have to do with anything? Dogs have fur, bears have teeth, we have brains. And we adapted to nature better than any species on the whole planet. By ANY values that humans hold, yes, I can say death is worse than life except against someone trying to kill you. You're trying so desperately to be abstract that you've lost all credibility. If you can't even commit to saying "Helping the most number of people to survive is better than just leaving them to die," then you really shouldn't be trying to have adult conversations. Yes, in some unknown future, keeping people alive now wipes out the human race in 100 years due to war. And in some unknown future you turn out to be a super spreader of a more deadly plague. Better if we just handed you a gun to end yourself now huh? Of course not, because we don't envision the worst case unnown scenario, then model our actions on that being a probable outcome.
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@Nick ______ I'm entrenched in an ideology of following the science, and you are entrenched in an ideology of following your adolescent fee fees because no-one's going to tell you what to do! I assume your father sent you to your room one too many times as a teenager. Each man is entitled to his own opinions, not his own facts, and the facts are not on your side.
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@Nick ______ You really are a very muddled thinker aren't you? That was a complete false equivalence. I bet you're one of those people who says "If we can fly to the moon why can't we..." Science's inability to measure the electron flow in a battery could potentially be unknowable. Biology and medicine's ability to determine the largely predictable behaviour of a virus whose gene we have mapped is a totally different and unrelated matter. Moreover, as with Newton's mistaken comprehension of gravity, sometimes you don't need a flawless knowledge down to the quantum level, to be able to describe and predict future behaviour. As for your original thought question (a modern take on Renee Descarte's specious "I think therefore I am" statement (so much for originality)), none of us has a thought that is not predicated upon prior input, be it genetic or envronmental. We're all just working with building blocks others made. The question is; how do YOU trust that those building blocks are trustworthy?
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@Nick ______ Not at all. You THINK you're being profound. You're not.
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@Nick ______ "You dont know what the worst case scenario is, you assume you're right. And based on your assumptions you are willing to trample on others and cause incredible strife. I could keep going but you won't get it, its clear you have entrenched yourself in an ideology and are willing to walk on people... whos opinions are just as valid and important as yours."
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@Nick ______ This is not evolution. Not HUMAN evolution. And when else would you EVER say " Oh just let evolution run its course?" You already admitted you take drugs to recover from things. "I think there is a good enough case that it is more natural to let it run" I'm glad you were not around when the bubonic plague wiped out 200 million people - half of the population of Europe. " Either way I'm sure it will be fine" Except for the million people who have died, and the hundreds of thousands yet to die right? Anyway, I'm clearly wasting my time. We're done.
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