Thinning the herd?

[Eddi]

Look at this article:

Coronavirus UK: Pubs packed despite calls for social distancing | Daily Mail Online

Many people are carrying on as though there is no Coronavirus

Mingling in pubs and nightclubs, all close together in cramped spaces, breathing on each other, etc.

Carrying on as usual is a sure way to get infected, and to pass on the disease to others

It would be OK if only such stupid people caught the virus

But the thing is, the stupid people who don't care may spread it to the sensible people who are trying to avoid it

There's been talk of "herd immunity"

I think there should also be talk of "thinning the herd"

Everyone take care

 

[Twilight Hue]

Let it be said tried-and-true, you cannot change nature.

 

[Laika]

Look at this article:

Coronavirus UK: Pubs packed despite calls for social distancing | Daily Mail Online

Many people are carrying on as though there is no Coronavirus

Mingling in pubs and nightclubs, all close together in cramped spaces, breathing on each other, etc.

Carrying on as usual is a sure way to get infected, and to pass on the disease to others

It would be OK if only such stupid people caught the virus

But the thing is, the stupid people who don't care may spread it to the sensible people who are trying to avoid it

There's been talk of "herd immunity"

I think there should also be talk of "thinning the herd"

Everyone take care

never has the phrase "breathing on each other" sounded so dark and sinister...

it's almost kind of sexy...

 

[dfnj]

Look at this article:

Coronavirus UK: Pubs packed despite calls for social distancing | Daily Mail Online

Many people are carrying on as though there is no Coronavirus

Mingling in pubs and nightclubs, all close together in cramped spaces, breathing on each other, etc.

Carrying on as usual is a sure way to get infected, and to pass on the disease to others

It would be OK if only such stupid people caught the virus

But the thing is, the stupid people who don't care may spread it to the sensible people who are trying to avoid it

There's been talk of "herd immunity"

I think there should also be talk of "thinning the herd"

Everyone take care

Young people are usually the ones pubbing are probably going to survive the virus.

This is a baby boom virus. It's not like every baby boomers all have lived a healthy lifestyle. Tons of cases of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, smoking disease, alcoholics. It could be really ugly for boomers.

 

[dfnj]

Let it be said tried-and-true, you cannot change nature.

Or people who watch Fox news and think the virus is a hoax!

 

[Eddi]

Young people are usually the ones pubbing are probably going to survive the virus.

This is a baby boom virus. It's not like every baby boomers all have lived a healthy lifestyle. Tons of cases of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, smoking disease, alcoholics. It could be really ugly for boomers.

The baby boomers have had it real good, they've been a very fortunate generation

But now they're old and at risk...

 

[dfnj]

The baby boomers have had it real good, they've been a very fortunate generation

But now they're old and at risk...

In my family 2 out of 6 have died. One died of breast cancer. The other died from too many drugs and alcohol (he never stopped binge-ing). The one who smokes a lot is teetering on thread at 70. One has had a heart attack and now has 4 stints plus diabetes. I doubt they are going to live into their 90s based on they lived in the 60s! Both my friends parents died from cigarettes in their sixties like 10 years ago. The one who's 70 had a friend who was into chewing tobacoo. He died from cheek and throat cancer even though he didn't smoke but just chewed.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Young people are usually the ones pubbing are probably going to survive the virus.

This is a baby boom virus. It's not like every baby boomers all have lived a healthy lifestyle. Tons of cases of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, smoking disease, alcoholics. It could be really ugly for boomers.

Actually they're finding its attacking young people too. More so than previously thought.

 

[exchemist]

Young people are usually the ones pubbing are probably going to survive the virus.

This is a baby boom virus. It's not like every baby boomers all have lived a healthy lifestyle. Tons of cases of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, smoking disease, alcoholics. It could be really ugly for boomers.

In fact at my son's school, the pupils have taken to calling this virus "Boomer Remover"

Though actually it is really the generation before that it removes.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Young people are usually the ones pubbing are probably going to survive the virus.

This is a baby boom virus. It's not like every baby boomers all have lived a healthy lifestyle. Tons of cases of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, smoking disease, alcoholics. It could be really ugly for boomers.

Hence perhaps the nasty #BoomerRemover tag that has circulated. Wouldn't get off the ground if this virus affected the young more than the elderly. Anyway, the elderly might have more common sense than the young, and hence look after themselves better.

 

[Mock Turtle]

The baby boomers have had it real good, they've been a very fortunate generation

But now they're old and at risk...

Keep thinking that. They had parents so wounded by WWII so as perhaps not to cater for all the needs of their children. And the Boomers also went through more than many recent generations - like rationing (until 1954), both parents in work all too often, loads of strikes and three-day weeks - including electricity shortages, and rampant inflation (which might have benefited them and might have not).

It's just rubbish to think of them as some fortunate generation - speaking as a war-baby (technically). We all experience what we get without necessarily contributing to such.

 

[dfnj]

In fact at my son's school, the pupils have taken to calling this virus "Boomer Remover"

Though actually it is really the generation before that it removes.

Tell them, "Laugh now your next!"

 

[Eddi]

Keep thinking that. They had parents so wounded by WWII so as perhaps not to cater for all the needs of their children. And the Boomers also went through more than many recent generations - like rationing (until 1954), both parents in work all too often, loads of strikes and three-day weeks - including electricity shortages, and rampant inflation (which might have benefited them and might have not).

It's just rubbish to think of them as some fortunate generation - speaking as a war-baby (technically). We all experience what we get without necessarily contributing to such.

In the UK they benefited from free university education, with free maintenance grants that they'd never ever have to pay back

But when they grew up and got political power they went and discontinued the free university education they themselves had benefited from - didn't want to pay it out of their taxes even though they happily took tax payers' money...

Graduates are now burdened with thousands of pounds of student debt

I am too and I didn't even graduate

The people who are at fault here happen to be baby boomers

Seems pretty self-serving to me

 

[exchemist]

Tell them, "Laugh now your next!"

Oh I think it's rather funny myself, even if I am a boomer too.

A bit like the term "coffin dodger" for a very old person.

These things are all a way of making light of a crisis and keeping your chin up. Gallows humour is what tends to prevail at times like this and it serves a purpose, psychologically.

 

[Revoltingest]

Or people who watch Fox news and think the virus is a hoax!

Has Fox News claimed it's a hoax?
(I don't watch it.)

 

[pearl]

Until late yesterday Florida beaches were packed for spring brake.
After all its their 'party time'.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

It would be OK if only such stupid people caught the virus

That's disgusting.

 

[Stanyon]

They are probably more at risk of cut and stab wounds during alcohol fueled feuds than getting the virus.

 

[Eddi]

That's disgusting.

They are putting themselves and others at risk...

If they want to expose themselves to the illness then that's fine, they can go and die of a horrid flu-like respiratory illness...

But they will spread it to others, they don't seem to give a damn about that - about other people

It's selfish and reckless, and downright stupid

They are not taking this whole emergency seriously and are going to make it worse

Yes, I admit that it is flippant hyperbole to say it's an opportunity to thin the heard

But still, there is a kernal of truth in it

 

[esmith]

They are probably more at risk of cut and stab wounds during alcohol fueled feuds than getting the virus.

You do realize don't you that one can carry the virus and have little or no symptoms yet infect someone else. It is called asymptomatically transmission. I blame the stupid parents of these children who only think of themselves.