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This comment does not represent the reality I live in. Nice try.

Attendance dropped due to lockdowns and the fear campaign. I was there, remember? The pubs were rammed, Boris started saying "don't do X", numbers decreased a lot, he said "we make…

Is universal healthcare important enough to cede control over what we put into our own bodies? That's the only important question. As far as I'm concerned the answer is definitiona…

I've addressed this in my comment already. If we don't lock down and you break your leg, you may not get medical attention. So let's lock down so that it's impossible to break your…

If you want to lockdown, you can lockdown, and now you are safe. You don't need others to do so, the virus does not travel through windows and walls. As such the stance is definiti…

> One recent study claims an infection impaired-quality-of-life ratio of over 50% ( https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/how-many-people-get- ...). Yeah, okay. I know anecdotes …

I disagree. It is not possible because it is not possible to arrive at the stance via logic. If not for the marketing campaign; certainly if not for the "original sin" of Italy's l…

Strongly disagree. People who call for authoritarian measures such as using force in order to prevent people from leaving their homes, from associating with friends and family, and…

People who support lockdowns aren't interested in facts; their viewpoints are shaped by marketing. It's been blindingly obvious from the moment we knew that coronavirus had a 1% IF…

I disagree that there's an issue, saying that I "fail to grasp" it is needlessly insulting.

Right, the fancy delivery apps aren't even ten years old yet. You couldn't even pay by card at all until ~2010 in the UK, I'm sure the odd weird pizza shop might have allowed you t…

Er, basically every takeaway I've ever bought? Is this a joke? Come to mine and we'll get an Indian in? lol.

Right, except with an atomic transfer this is impossible. You can literally stand at the door, check that the food is there, done. The worst case is that the restaurant scams you a…

This sort of thing is why I still use cash as much as possible. That way you have an atomic transfer. I get food, you get money. It could easily work with card, just pay on arrival…

150K in the UK have died of coronavirus, we have 67 million, that's 0.22%, and most of that was pre-vaccine. I can't really be bothered to trawl US stats, but I imagine the figures…

I don't really think that reading news improves my life. In some cases it directly contradicts my lived experience and understanding (loosely it could be described as propaganda, b…

Lobby to change the rules because they're ridiculous, or develop a method that makes it impossible for them to get caught? It just makes no sense to me on the face of it. What do y…

In the UK and US about 0.2-0.3% of the population have died of this thing and we're almost certainly over the worst of it (e.g. annual death rates will be lower going forward) due …

The headline here reads a bit like "person takes mask off to eat a sandwich". Obviously people use messaging software with their colleagues. The correct solution is to design syste…

I am in a fairly similar situation. Your issue is simply that you must learn to relax, after spending most of your life grinding it can be challenging to simply... be. You worked y…

Why do others need to adopt it? It's a useful tool regardless of how widely it's used. Would it become better if others used it as well?