MacCruiskeen » 25 Mar 2020 21:15 wrote:Our trusted Leaders are creating a gigantic global health crisis under the guise of fighting a gigantic global health crisis. They are creating Hikikomoro World. Ofc hospitals will be struggling, with more and more cases of people suffering panic attacks, drinking themselves senseless, trying to commit suicide, battering their wives and kids, suffering vitamin D depletion & contracting bronchitis and pneumonia because they're tanning their lungs with cigarettes and staring red-eyed into their tv sets & dumbphones instead of moving freely in the spring sunshine & laughing with their loved ones.
If you are lucky enough to live in a rural area in US or Aus or anywhere, then ask yourself (while enjoying a stroll in the sunshine) what this global Fearporn Lockdown is gonna do/is already doing to the *billions* of people who live in cities, esp tower blocks -- young familes, people who live alone, old lonely widows & widowers, atomised young workers who are now forbidden to work or socialise, young members of football teams & cricket teams and choirs & hiking clubs and etc., etc., etc. who are all now cooped up their hi-rise hi-rent boxes glued to their laptops & tablets & tvs going slowly or quickly nuts.
You think we are unaware of all that. My only family apart from missus and kids is in Melbourne. 1000 miles away. My mum is in her 70s and my brothers lungs are fucked, he lives at home looking after her. They are already struggling with it.
I can't go see them.
It's my brother in laws funeral starts in an hour. I can't go. The border is closed to Qld for the first time since the Flu pandemic 100 years ago. It's fucked. I've got friends in cities in apartment blocks who have been isolating themselves for weeks already cos they may have had this, turns out it's the flu, part of a massive influenza A epidemic that is everywhere on the country right now. They are actually finding out who their neighbours are, even tho they can't socialise face to face. I hear what you are saying tho.
It's a bit rude to think we aren't aware how lucky we are here and how fucked it would be in the city.
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Even the footy is cancelled.
Here's the thing, we have a Tory government made up of advertising people and real estate agents and lawyers, all tight arsed austerity loving shit heads.
They just doubled the dole payment and gave everyone else on any welfare a 100% increase in allowances. Plus thousands of dollars more in extra money. Just to spend and keep the economy going. They have made billions of dollars available to poor people and overnight ended the brutal anti unemployed policies they had. Two weeks ago you'd have odds of 1000 to 1 on them doing that. Even more maybe.
There is no way they would have done something like that to support any sort of agenda. Its beyond them. They are ideologically incapable.
That alone is enough to make a lot of us think wtf is going on?
I can't play darts tonight. Well I could but we won't.
COs all of us that play will see older, more vulnerable people in the following fortnight. None of us want to transmit anything to those people that will make them ill. It's nothing compared to being stuck in a box in a bigger box I know that, but we're miles from anywhere and likely the last place to be impacted even without all this isolation. We are choosing to not play because no one could possibly enforce it and afaik it's not even "not allowed". It's not worth the potential risk for people we care about.
