Are you aware that some in the upper echelons of academia sometimes question the levels of maths and language exhibited by many seeking higher education qualifications at Universities and Technical places of learning.
If this theory has validity then how the hell will the nation of followers of St Jacinda cope with level 2.375 for six days and seventeen hours from eleven fifty nine on Sunday the twelfth. Is that a Welsh day anyway so not significant in Aotearower.
Of course the subjects of her imminence could just be exhorted to observe normal levels of personal hygiene, avoid unnecessary gatherings and if such activity should be found essential then in the now embedded words of the crusty old shift manager from “Hill Street Blues sending his troops out onto the streets of New York, “Be careful out there” could be relevant.
For me I am over it, so we have another threat to our survival in an age of dependance and reliance on the State for when adversity is confronted. The dangers facing the people in 2020 are minimal when compared to those faced by the generations that preceded us.
Then there was war and economic depressions now seemingly seriously reduced if not “eliminated”?!(eliminaded for the woke)
Diphtheria, Smallpox, Mumps, Measles, Tetanus, Whooping cough, Rabies, Blood poisoning, Polio, Starvation, and others consigned largely to history for Children with only average Parents living in most social groups across the world. That list above were all a constant only seventy years ago and although Smallpox is the only one officially declared defeated there is an effective avoidance from the others until a Government intent on its own continuing in power interferes with pretty basic levels of community sanitation and food supply we assume to be for all.
Sheesh it was only a mere seven decades ago that second in command of the SS died from injuries inflicted by a bomb in his car he was going to work in, because after surviving the blast he succumbed to massive infections resulting from Horse hair and leather particles entering his body and starting multiple infections his otherwise healthy body could not counter. Penicillin or other antibiotic could well have overcome that lethal infection.
One dead “with the Rona” since April, against how many from road crashes, industrial accidents, child abuse, assaults and criminal personal harm, Cardiac, Pneumonia, Cancers, Strokes, Hemorrhages, Aneurysms, and just plain old age.
Can New Zealand actually see a decline in the hysteria and a move to a collective recovery effort after the October election. Reading and listening to The MSM it could be assumed total defeat for Homelessness, Poverdy, Unemployment, and Child abuse, Oh hang on was that a weeny bitsy perhaps not so this week. Oh well we are being saved right, right.
One dead “with the Rona” since April,
Which proves the efficacy of the measures taken so far. How many deaths would you prefer? Should NZ resemble Victoria or the USA? Maybe Sweden, where both the death toll and the economic toll are higher than in NZ.
against how many from road crashes, industrial accidents, child abuse, assaults and criminal personal harm, Cardiac, Pneumonia, Cancers, Strokes, Hemorrhages, Aneurysms, and just plain old age.
I don’t know. Do you?
What is known is that the deaths in each of these examples is lower than it could be because of preventative measures. Let’s not make people drive on the left anymore, their freedom should allow them to choose any side or no side of the road. Why should firies have protective equipment? Shorts, thongs and Tshirts were once all the rage. Get the children back into factories and out of schools. What could go wrong? All kids need to experience life like Arvie Aspinall.
Life is invariably fatal GD – what modern medical science can do is delay the arrival of the grim reaper but it cannot keep him at bay forever.
What truely puzzles me in a year when we have “euthanasia” on the ballot and the Government of the day has further liberalized abortion that suddenly all stops have to be pulled out to protect the lives of drooling dementia patients sitting in their shit filled diapers in rest homes who must not in any circimstances be allowed to develop pneumonia if triggered by this particular virus but there you go what would I know
Of course the moderns struggle with coming to terms with their own mortality, which is clear from all of this but neither Labour nor National can confer immortality with any policy they can conceive
The dangers facing the people in 2020 are minimal when compared to those faced by the generations that preceded us.
To AGW deniers I guess it must look like that, sure. People who aren’t recognise that the people being born now are going to have problems to deal with that make a bunch of fascists and communists seem trivial.
When was there ever a time when people didn’t have to confront problems and face challenges PM?
When was life ever easy and has there ever a time when life was easier and more comfortable and life more secure than the present day?
Our forebears who lived in a time when it was unusual to live to sixty would have been gobsmacked at the sight of our PM lamenting the death by natural causes of a 94 year old woman as though it was a highly anamalous event
Mltie to hear you declaim your view without a single shed of evidence to support it.
In fact you are on the wrong side of history on this issue too. All the physical evidence points to unchanged temperatures over the last 150 years and abundant life arising from increased CO2 concentration( in which fact has no correlation with temperature).
Andei is right, the last 150 years has resulted in increased wealth, all boats rising, and improved longevity.
Sure nobody can look into the future. But if it is climate that changes life as we know it it sure wont be warming, the trends seam to be that of decreasing temperature, on balance.
And as you well know cold has killed more people than warmth….. you only have to look no further than the Middle Ages and the mini ice age which we have just got out of.
Pari Parsu we will continue to live longer.
And the Rona flu sure wont be the cause of it.
If you keep posting like this I will have to write chapter 3 of my mini satire so ou readership can in deed find out if there is a Plan B