End the Lockdown

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I live in Simcoe-Muskoka population circa 550,000. Currently 10 people are in hospital due to Wuflu. To date 15 people have died in Simcoe-Muskoka, seven in a single senior facility. The original intent for the lockdown was to ease the strain on the hospitals. End the lockdown.
 
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Blackleaf said:
You stay at home and panic.
Other people, however, have got lives to lead and family to meet.
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You have none of those things and you whimpered about having to stay in because it was the law.

You Brits are pathetic.
 
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Blackleaf said:
Feeble.
The Americans, by the way, are the ones who have a good track record of accidentally shooting and bombing allied soldiers.
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Only Brits, so I don't see a problem.

They just say...yeah...it was an accident....wink wink
 
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Walter said:
I live in Simcoe-Muskoka population circa 550,000. Currently 10 people are in hospital due to Wuflu. To date 15 people have died in Simcoe-Muskoka, seven in a single senior facility. The original intent for the lockdown was to ease the strain on the hospitals. End the lockdown.
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Doug Ford says no.

Good on him.
 
Blackleaf

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Our impatience will end the lockdown

Today, 12:26pm
Coffee House
The Spectator (10,000th edition)
Rod Liddle



At the farm shop this morning there was a chap panic-buying a large metal and plaster flamingo. It was the last one in stock and he looked very pleased with himself. I wondered if he had a few score more at home, hoarded in the attic. And then his long-suffering wife saying, when he arrived home: “Did you get the milk and chopped tomatoes?” And him replying with excitement: “No, but I managed to get another one of THESE, love...”

As I mentioned in my column this week, the government will be a fait accompli to the ending of lockdown. The glorious silence of two weeks ago is already a fading memory. Nobody at the farm shop this morning was buying “essentials”: instead garish lawn ornaments, flowers, chocolate cakes and, in my case, clotted cream for some strawberries. The road on which the shop is situated is as noisy at it was in pre-plague days. McDonalds is to re-open in a week or two, the government is discussing practicalities with the Premier League. It will not be long before the flights take off for Aya Napa. So let me be the first columnist to wallow in lockdown nostalgia. Yes, it’s ok for me having a house with a garden in the countryside and a couple of very good local shops a short drive away. But I can’t deny that I actually preferred life lived that way. And the thing that will have broken lockdown will not be government edict, but our lack of discipline, our impatience. More understandable if you are living in London, sure, but indiscipline and impatience nonetheless.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spectator.co.uk/article/our-impatience-will-end-the-lockdown/amp
 
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So, there's no law stating that you have to stay in?
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No.

Rather disgracefully, we haven't even got a Parliament at the moment in order to put ANYTHING into law. There is no democracy at the moment. The parliament we democratically elected in December has ceased to exist.

So, no, the lockdown isn't law. Far from it.
 
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Blackleaf said:
No.
Rather disgracefully, we haven't even got a Parliament at the moment in order to put ANYTHING into law. There is no democracy at the moment. The parliament we democratically elected in December has ceased to exist.
So, no, the lockdown isn't law. Far from it.
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So then. Those. Like yourself,are whining about a non existant thing.
 
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On the BBC's lockdown show Big Night In, comedian Romesh Ranganathan gives us an insight into his lockdown:

Comedy series Little Britain made a brief appearance on the Big Night In. Is it a bad time for Andy to eat bat sh*t?

The Big Night In - Little Britain's Matt Lucas performs a very special version of 'Baked Potato' with the BBC Orchestra:
 
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There is no lockdown.

"Lockdown" is a term used to describe a situation in prisons where the inmates are confined to their cells.

In recent times it has drifted, and recently has been used to describe situations where access and free movement are temporarily restricted for safety purposes, such as schools with a report of an active shooter.

The fear that such situations provoke is exactly why the tighty whitey righties have latched on to the term to describe the mild restrictions in response to the current pandemic.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
There is no lockdown.
"Lockdown" is a term used to describe a situation in prisons where the inmates are confined to their cells.
In recent times it has drifted, and recently has been used to describe situations where access and free movement are temporarily restricted for safety purposes, such as schools with a report of an active shooter.
The fear that such situations provoke is exactly why the tighty whitey righties have latched on to the term to describe the mild restrictions in response to the current pandemic.
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Showing your racism again.

What about all the non-white people who also call the lockdown a lockdown? Or do they call it something else?

What is the lockdown called, for example, in English-speaking Singapore?

I do, as ever, look forward to your intelligent reply to my query.
 
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