Riiight

[Abby Normal]

Agreed, but easier said than done. The ironic event was recently when thousands of anti-vaxxer people marched in Washington D C., which has a vaccination mandate. But we are hearing that the fast-spreading Omnicron variant has peaked, which may mean stats will drop...Maybe?

lets hope so PC-fingers crossed.

[Pcdunn]

Agreed, but easier said than done. The ironic event was recently when thousands of anti-vaxxer people marched in Washington D C., which has a vaccination mandate. But we are hearing that the fast-spreading Omnicron variant has peaked, which may mean stats will drop...Maybe?

[Abby Normal]

getting vaxed and boostered is a no brainer. all the stats Ive seen show that most people in the hospital and the worse off arent vaxed and or boosted. more importantly it helps stop spread the disease. Im not usually one for sweeping gov mandates but i would be for this. get your vax/booster.

[Mark J D]

... Reminds me of a caller...

13 December 2019:
"We voted Conservative because we didn't like Jeremy Corbyn."
"Why was that, then?"
"Uh, ... dunno..."

M.

[caz]

Social Identity Theory (see Tajfel & Turner and many following) reveals that an in-group will happily act to the detriment of its own interests as long as it believes its actions mean the out-group will also be harmed. Explains a lot of what we've seen, and of what we won't ever see. Or, to quote a moron I once heard, "I don't care if it does cost us the NHS -- because at least Romanians won't be coming over here and getting to use it for free!"

M.

Reminds me of a caller to James O'Brien on LBC, who said: "I like the fact that Boris Johnson tells lies because it upsets people like you."

Love,

Caz
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[Herlock Sholmes]

It's JFK Jr.

He faked his death at Martha's Vinyard so he could secretly work with the Former Guy behind the scenes.

JFK is actually dead--killed by Ted Cruz's father.

I read it in one of Rupert Murdoch's finer publications.

You should take a trip over to the Schwartz thread Roger.

[Mark J D]

"Happy with Brexit" will no doubt include many who voted for it and cannot now admit to themselves that they were conned rotten into an unprecedented act of self harm.

Social Identity Theory (see Tajfel & Turner and many following) reveals that an in-group will happily act to the detriment of its own interests as long as it believes its actions mean the out-group will also be harmed. Explains a lot of what we've seen, and of what we won't ever see. Or, to quote a moron I once heard, "I don't care if it does cost us the NHS -- because at least Romanians won't be coming over here and getting to use it for free!"

M.

[caz]

"Happy with Brexit" will no doubt include many who voted for it and cannot now admit to themselves that they were conned rotten into an unprecedented act of self harm.

Compassion for the conned; contempt for the conmen and women.

Love,

Caz
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[Svensson]

Quote:
The democratic wellbeing of England is in crisis according to new report GDWe: A spotlight on democratic wellbeing from Carnegie UK.

Less than half of the English public (45%) feel that democracy works well in the UK and the overwhelming majority do not trust that MPs (76%) or the UK government (73%) will make decisions that will improve their lives.

While distrust of those in national political life is highest, local authorities do not escape unscathed with 60% making similar judgments about councils.

The lack of trust seeps into every facet of everyday life with only around a fifth (18%) trusting what they see and hear in the media and fewer than one in ten (8%) trusting social media content.

However, public services, such as doctors and transport services (71%), official statistics (61%) and even businesses used by respondents (51%) were on the whole trusted by the public.
Unquote

https://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/news-stories/lack-of-trust-in-politics-threatens-democracy-new-report-and-poll/

PDF: GDWe-A-spotlight-on-democratic-wellbeing-FINAL.pdf

45%, I guess is the number who are happy with Brexit, an exercise is in democracy (although led by a liar, clown and illegal raver who is now occupying No.10 ).

[Mark J D]

... The democratic wellbeing of England ...

Folks, the word 'democratic' has no real-world meaning anymore (if it ever did...). The old dictionary concept is *utterly irrelevant* to governance and decision-making in the UK. As indeed it is in the US. We all live in an age of oligarchy with democratic scene-painting.

The world is almost ended. Please try and catch up in time to know why it happened.

We now return you to your normal programming...

M.

[mpriestnall]

Quote:
The democratic wellbeing of England is in crisis according to new report GDWe: A spotlight on democratic wellbeing from Carnegie UK.

Less than half of the English public (45%) feel that democracy works well in the UK and the overwhelming majority do not trust that MPs (76%) or the UK government (73%) will make decisions that will improve their lives.

While distrust of those in national political life is highest, local authorities do not escape unscathed with 60% making similar judgments about councils.

The lack of trust seeps into every facet of everyday life with only around a fifth (18%) trusting what they see and hear in the media and fewer than one in ten (8%) trusting social media content.

However, public services, such as doctors and transport services (71%), official statistics (61%) and even businesses used by respondents (51%) were on the whole trusted by the public.
Unquote

https://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/news-stories/lack-of-trust-in-politics-threatens-democracy-new-report-and-poll/

PDF: GDWe-A-spotlight-on-democratic-wellbeing-FINAL.pdf

[Svensson]

Doctor's having to make life or death decisions is not a "socialised medicine" problem. In this case, Allina Health....

Court Battle Over a Ventilator Takes a Patient From Minnesota to Texas https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/u...7iVWqvDlr5Zx-Q

[rjpalmer]

This is all a hoax, fake news, and JFK is coming back to lead us all into a glorious future. Or something.

It's JFK Jr.

He faked his death at Martha's Vinyard so he could secretly work with the Former Guy behind the scenes.

JFK is actually dead--killed by Ted Cruz's father.

I read it in one of Rupert Murdoch's finer publications.

[Mark J D]

Here is a story I came across that made me think: [...]

There's a study somewhere in which the US's outlier status as a highly religious industrialised first-world society is explained in terms of the lack of a social safety net: if there is not adequate state protection for people (because that would erode state protection for concentrated private wealth), people turn to irrational and fantasy substitutes.

M.

[Pcdunn]

Here is a story I came across that made me think:

By Kayla Ruble

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/18/covid-deaths-michigan/

Man in small Michigan town refused the vaccines, ended up dying of coronavirus. He was president of the social center for elderly residents.