Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "" video.

The Liberals started bleating on about PR as soon as it became clear they would never form a government again. Just sayin'
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@vladimirputin4822 What is even sadder is the inability of the left-wing mindset to understand the true nature of democracy.
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@rocketscience4516 Keep taking the tablets. The pain will soon go! (PS. Great news about the drop in covid cases in the UK, isn't it?)
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@vladimirputin4822 Exactly. Democracy is about representation. It is not a popularity contest. PR would mean a country consisting of a wide variety of communities with differing interests and priorities being entirely governed by the whims of a largely urban population.
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@vladimirputin4822 If by best-run you mean the most authoritarian then you may have a point.
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@rocketscience4516 Certainly the former. The latter are irrelevant to the issue.
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@rocketscience4516 Funnily enough a survey undertaken by the Royal Society of Medicine in 2015 revealed that 6% of surgeons do not wear facemasks during operations, and of those that did, 20% said they only did so because they thought it was expected of them.
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@rocketscience4516 Just look up the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, June 17, 2015. (I got the percentage wrong, sorry. Only 4% said they didn't wear masks.) Covid hysteria has meant that everyone who knows which side their bread is buttered on has to follow the official political line. Hence the pronouncement of the esteemed RS President.(It's not still that tosser Paul Nurse, is it?) In any case the point as issue here is that even if masks work in a public setting (which they largely don't) the present situation means that the more vaccinated people who become infected the better, since they are likely to suffer only very mild symptoms but help pave the way to herd immunity. Thus face coverings are doubly useless.
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@rocketscience4516 Just check their site! I've tried sending the direct link, but the YouTube stasi are blocking it. PS. Personality flaws? Are you a practising psychiatrist?
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@rocketscience4516 Chicken!
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@rocketscience4516 Playing golf this afternoon?
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@Yeknodathon From the same report: "A contemporary questionnaire-based study, which attempted to assess the attitudes of surgeons, revealed that 96% of responders wore facemasks.1 About equal numbers did so with the primary aim of protecting the patients compared to protecting themselves. However, it was also found that 20% of responding surgeons wore the mask for the sole purpose of respecting tradition. Furthermore, 30% of responding surgeons felt that masks could make surgery more difficult by increasing breath condensation on spectacles, endoscopes and microscopes and thereby obscuring vision." "Examination of the literature revealed much of the published work on the matter to be quite dated and often studies had poorly elucidated methodologies. As a result, we recommend caution in extrapolating their findings to contemporary surgical practice. However, overall there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that facemasks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination. More rigorous contemporary research is needed to make a definitive comment on the effectiveness of surgical facemasks."
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@susanstanleyhammond5699 By this logic everyone should wear crucifixes to ward off vampires and tinfoil hats to protect their brains from harmful cosmic rays.
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@susanstanleyhammond5699 A fair point. How about cannabis oil to prevent cancer? Or walnuts? Or blowing rams' horns at sunset to keep tigers away? In all seriousness though I personally balance the remote possibility that face coverings might reduce the spread of covid against the distinct probability that they are merely used as a politically motivated psychological prop.
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@susanstanleyhammond5699 Do you really not believe that governments use psychological manipulation when dealing with situations such as this? Apart from anything else, face-coverings allow people who question them, or do not wear them, to become objects of vilification - rather than governments which have made such an unholy mess of things.
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@susanstanleyhammond5699 Have you had much luck with yours?
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@susanstanleyhammond5699 What is a denial issue? Disagreement is not denial. Your apparent rigidity of thought could give you problems, so I advise against any form of reinforcement strategy. You have perhaps fallen under the influence of charlatans and consequently project your insecurities on others as an avoidance measure. If you yourself are actually seeing a therapist at the moment I suggest you consider finding another direction. Your current treatment is clearly doing you no good.
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@susanstanleyhammond5699 But I've had my first jab, and am lining up for number two! What on earth made you think otherwise?
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@susanstanleyhammond5699 There was, I admit, an element of bribery. My children insisted, asking me to imagine how they would feel if they gave me the lurgy when I visited, and I died as a result. So, emotional blackmail rather than bribery. I'm not afraid of needles at all, but it was irritating having to wear a mask while I queued up. Sowing doubt is a good thing. I'm not a psychopath but most politicians are to some degree or another and it is a general rule that they will seize upon any situation to extend their authority beyond normal limitations. They have certainly done so in this case, and every step they take has to be questioned.
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@susanstanleyhammond5699 Not my style at all. All power to him though!
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