There is no need for “gallows humour” or someone like lefty doing other left wing posters who can seperate a killer virus from politics.
You have a poster like Spanish almost gleefully posting it would be brexiteers and northern Tory voters who would die. Wasn’t acceptable at the time and now it’s hit wouldn’t be seen as acceptable now.
Then you have an expectant father taken to hospital and all left can rant on about is Brexit etc. Not doing much for the right wing bad and left wing good argument.
People are dying. It shouldn’t be political and I said for day 1 some were making it that way. Step forward Lefty.
It shouldn’t be political? Why the f**k not!
The bad choices made are entirely political, both for the last 10 years and the last few months.
It is the same thought process and the same people behind the current fiasco as it is behind the brexit fiasco.
It’s not understanding that we have chosen to dispense with the best practice on how to reason and evaluate when it comes to making important decisions. At the end of the 20th century we had built on the works and thoughts of the greatest minds of centuries and arrived at some pretty sound principles. We understood that we are slave to emotions, that we are prone to bias, that making evidence based decisions and doing everything we can to eliminate biases is the right thing to do.
And then this century we have decided ideology trumps critical thinking, emotion over reason. Hell, those who brought you brexit even bragged that they relied on emotional arguments. Yet those who fell prey to their cunning and cleverness still can’t acknowledge that, but rewarded liars. These same people have carried on thinking they can do no wrong and that ignoring expert advice they don’t like in favour of expert advice they do, even if it is a minority or fringe opinion, must be fine because the people and privilege have conferred omnipotence on them.
As for those criticising my first post, I suggest you look at yourselves. Check whether you found you were triggered by the word Brexit. Did you think I wrote ‘I’m glad Johnson has the virus’, ‘I’m glad he’s getting worse’ or ‘I hope he dies and takes his pregnant girlfriend with him’, or even ‘serves him right’? I think you did. Go back and read it, then ask yourselves why you thought that? Is it possible you had an emotional response, possibly to me personally, which overrode your intellect so that you read into what I wrote what you wanted to write into it? The answer is it is definitely possible.