I think some in Government have become so weeded to the whole “FREEDOM!!” narrative that they’ve left themselves no room politically to roll back at all. Plus a large section of the right wing press have done this a dozen times harder and won’t countenance any sort of “retreat” to the “doom...
It's worse than that, the highest death toll in a peacetime rail crash in the UK is 112 at Harrow in 1952, it's more like one of those every day.
800 per week is roughly the equivalent of 2 fully laden 747s crashing every week. If that happened I think someone might be asking some pretty...
Then they're cowards. There are 179 families today, and 223 yesterday, and who knows how many tomorrow, who deserve an explanation. That their loved ones haven't been basically sacrificed needlessly by the Government because it's too politically difficult to persuade selfish people to put masks...
I think the problem is people who (for whatever reason) are opposed to masks often use the line "well they don't stop the spread on their own". Yes, of course they don't, there are multiple options needed, but the point is masks are one of the few we can do ourselves. We can't speed up the...
I've been wearing mine anyway but would absolutely support it, we can't just bury our heads in the sand and pretend it's all going away. It's better to do something we can all do like this rather than risk more drastic and draconian measures down the line.
As for the "but masks don't work"...