Covid deniers and anti maskers

I consider myself a lefty and i think wearing a mask is total b***ks. I still do it, mind. But its just ridiculous isnt it. Makes a few people feel better though i suppose. Optics.

I am also not in a rush to be vaccinated for a virus that is extremely unlikely to harm me, or my children. But i think if you are at risk and you want it, crack on.

For balance
Unlikely to harm you? do you mean death? Because I know a few (myself included) who still have shortness of breath and other issues that flare up since having it.
 
Unlikely to harm you? do you mean death? Because I know a few (myself included) who still have shortness of breath and other issues that flare up since having it.
Very unlikely. If I took preventative measures against everything with comparable chance of inflicting harm I would not get anything done
 
Unlikely to harm you? do you mean death? Because I know a few (myself included) who still have shortness of breath and other issues that flare up since having it.
There are views that long covid could take decades off lives. On top of that, if you catch it and pass it on you are potentially a vessel for mutation....which could cause millions to die. So the idea that "oh i'm all right Jack, it won't kill me" is the argument of the ignorant and short sighted.
 
These posts always end up with Right v Left.

Why do people feel the need to categorise others without knowing facts?
Not really categorising anyone in particular, just a observation looking at the profiles of the most outspoken, also those on the far right supporting trump, not a mask on sight.
 
The main traits I've noticed are a) thick as pig$hit, b) illiterate and c) desperate to be 'different' because they're so vanilla and insignificant in every other walk of life. Quite often, all three.
 
People, like yourself it seems, are too quick to stick a political label on people when the labels themselves are just daft at the end of the day.
But you do appreciate that trump politicised mask wearing as left, and mask denial as right, and that people in this country listened to that, and others carried that baton forward with pride and promoted it here.
 
You're putting the deaths resulting from mutations onto the conscience of patient zero?
If patient zero was a mask denier who wilfully ignored the advice of experts, then surely they ARE culpable.....you missed that key part of my point
 
Agreed.

There are some left wing ones (Piers Corbyn being the most prominent one) but many more prominent right wing ones.
How do you know that, how does anyone know that, how can someone possibly know by looking at that person whether they're right, left, centre, if so I bow to you all
 
How do you know that, how does anyone know that, how can someone possibly know by looking at that person whether they're right, left, centre, if so I bow to you all
What are you talking about? If someone is a well known Republican or Conservative we KNOW they are right wing. If we see someone at a Republican convention or Conservative Conference we know they are right wing. Where has anyone said that it is possible to tell that someone is RW or LW by looking at them?

Take Twitter for example. If I see someone telling me that wearing a mask is pointless I can check their (self written) biography and you know what I see? Anti-mask, Brexit, Trump and Libertarianism.
 
But you do appreciate that trump politicised mask wearing as left, and mask denial as right, and that people in this country listened to that, and others carried that baton forward with pride and promoted it here.
I could give less of an F what Trump thinks. He was never the president of my country and isn't even one anymore.
Yes I appreciate some folk in this country saw him as their leader but nothing you or I could/can do about that.
 
You are hysterical. If you make millions of deaths the potential consequence of contracting this thing then we need to urgently reassess the meaning of "essential" in this country. How can you possibly allow any interaction at all when you have raised the stakes to this level?

At no point have i said i dont wear a mask by the way. I've stated in this thread i comply with all rules - but i think its absolutely absurd.


I mean that is just brilliant:

If you catch it you could cause millions to die. But it is okay if you wear a mask and catch it it anyway, as people often do. Maybe you were collecting your chow mein. Or doing the weekly shop. How were you to blame.
If you did not wear a mask however, you are personally responsible for millions of deaths!

hysterical
 
So we have moved from Brexit to now Trump and morphed them into the same thing. 60,000 people follow Piers Corbyn on social media. Largely unaddressed on this thread despite it being likely majority of these would be left wing given his own political standing. My own personal experience of the 2 I see on Facebook are both lefties and the gazette comments today both anti government/local mayor but pro covid denial. Doesn't fit this narrative on this thread. Now we have Trump and his supporters as being used to show that covid deniers in this country are pro brexit.... couldn't make it up
 
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