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Author	360Saturn
Comment	Haha I was past caring in January. What gets me is the narrativising around it all. The reality is that a lot of people who got covid and died did so after playing fast and loose with the rules while being vulnerable and getting burnt. And that the rules being as strict as they are are a backdoor attempt to control for reckless people by shutting down as many of the rest of us who could be unwitting carriers as possible. Meanwhile, let's smother any possible class- or other health- based discussion of the impact of sustained lockdowns and interruption of our natural way of life by painting anyone who even wants to bring up the subject as at best a crazy person and at worst a closet murderer. Oh and in terms of actually doing something to deal with surges? Nah mate stick to the plan cooked up 6 months plus ago by hook or by crook where we do vaccines by age only, even after its been proven jabbing people with high social contact stops them from becoming spreader vectors & cuts the issue off at the knees. Where is the realism and where is the dynamic leadership please? The situation in Glasgow is a microcosm of the wider issues and not addressing them is only leading to resentment, which ironically will increase likelihood of people breaking the rules. I mean on that note. There's zero discussion of the possibility that there might be a link between Glasgow having the most draconian rules in the country for about 8 months now and the fact that compliance seems now to be going out the window and/or people in Glasgow seem increasingly at the end of their rope, which will be adding pressure to local services.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/netpv9/is_anyone_else_just_so_fucking_done_with_all_this/gyiz7jm/
Created	Tue 18th May 2021 4:13am
Status	normal ()

Haha I was past caring in January.

What gets me is the narrativising around it all. The reality is that a *lot* of people who got covid and died did so after playing fast and loose with the rules while being vulnerable and getting burnt. And that the rules being as strict as they are are a backdoor attempt to control for reckless people by shutting down as many of the rest of us who could be unwitting carriers as possible.

Meanwhile, let's smother any possible class- or other health- based discussion of the impact of sustained lockdowns and interruption of our natural way of life by painting anyone who even wants to bring up the subject as at best a crazy person and at worst a closet murderer. Oh and in terms of actually doing something to deal with surges? Nah mate stick to the plan cooked up 6 months plus ago by hook or by crook where we do vaccines by age only, even after its been proven jabbing people with high social contact stops them from becoming spreader vectors & cuts the issue off at the knees.

Where is the realism and where is the dynamic leadership please? The situation in Glasgow is a microcosm of the wider issues and not addressing them is only leading to resentment, which ironically will increase likelihood of people breaking the rules.

I mean on that note. There's zero discussion of the possibility that there might be a link between Glasgow having the most draconian rules in the country for about 8 months now *and* the fact that compliance seems now to be going out the window *and/or* people in Glasgow seem increasingly at the end of their rope, which will be adding pressure to local services.