Digby Posted March 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Saw a few camper vans, foreign plated cars with luggage racks about Shetland yesterday. The Highlands and Islands seem to getting people moving out of the cities to get away from the Virus.(Orkney still has no cases this morning). Surly must be as daft as taking the Cruise liner into the town. Virus ICU for Shetland going to be done in Aberdeen.(In Italy no ICU if you are over 60) This is the way it spread through Italy and Spain. It spread like wildfire. Lockdown must be coming. Shetland has very limited medical facilities, it can not cope with extra numbers. Nigel Bridgman-Elliot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Scottish coronavirus death toll could be “much worse” than 2,000 if advice ignored XAM7102 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capeesh Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) The biggest risk to Shetlanders imho is other Shetlanders ignoring the social distancing measures designed to help prevent the collapse of our health service. Edited March 22, 2020 by Capeesh Roachmill and XAM7102 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Shetland should have shut it's door a month ago to stop the coronavirus problem coming in. XAM7102 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XAM7102 Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) All people are being asked to do is stay home sit on their sofa's and relax. In WW1 & 2 people were willing to die for their country even lying about their age so they could serve their country. Very sad and disappointing people are not following the guidelines. Edited March 22, 2020 by XAM7102 Nigel Bridgman-Elliot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NullVoid Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) People are less patriotic today because the culture is differentFor under 30s regardless of weather you are left or right wing the country is vilified Left wing take is that the uk is"A white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" This descends from Post-Colonialist philosophy and revisionists forms of Christianitysee puritan hypothesis https://archive.org/details/youtube-qxunoh82KQg Right wing take is that the uk is"Cuckolded anti-British far left state" neither philosophy fosters positive attitudes towards the political entity known as the United Kingdom furthermore human beings are territorial creatures and younger generations are less likely to have a slice of its territory and live in more crowded conditions. Lower likelihood of starting families is due to behavioral sink and accelerated by the sexual revolution All people are being asked to do is stay home sit on their sofa's and relax. In WW1 & 2 people were willing to die for their country even lying about their age so they could serve their country. Very sad and disappointing people are not following the guidelines. Left wing people in Italy purposefully increased interaction/contract with Chinese people, To prove how”not racist” they are or something.Italian residents hug Chinese people to encourage them in coronavirus fight OrganizerDario NardellaDemocratic Party(Democrats of the Left)Political position: Centre-leftQuick rundown on political position Edited March 22, 2020 by NullVoid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watter Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Globalisation with open borders makes pandemics like the present one inevitable . We saw that many EU countries were incredibly reluctant to end unrestricted movement of people due to their political adherence to globalisation but this pandemic which will see millions of people die saw political correctness ramming into the concrete buffers of reality and they were forced to act however reluctantly to save lives . This pandemic could change the political landscape in Europe for generations to come . Colin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 The warnings were all there with the "SARS" & "H1N1" outbreaks. Shame that our so called "leaders" were so "politically blinkered" that they couldn't do anything concrete to prevent this one. Chinese companies were allowed to buy leather (and other) goods factories in Italy (for the prestige "made in Italy label") and then staff them with a lot of Chinese workers who they flew in. Go figure. A lot of others have to accept a share of the blame as well (airlines/cruise lines/travel companies). Just ask if so many people really need so many foreign holidays. The virus has spread so quickly simply because we have allowed it to and, indeed, assisted it.!! Watter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watter Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) Things are changing fast when Trump slapped a travel ban on flights from China the Liberal Left media in the US [which is most of them ] were outraged and slammed Trump as racist and xenophobic but now they have done a 180 and say he did not act fast enough . Its telling when its their and their families lives on the line they scream for the borders to come up and forget they have campaigned for years for the exact opposite Incidentally the ''Spanish Flu '' really originated from China not Spain .https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health/ Edited March 22, 2020 by Watter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davie P Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Textbook attempts to politicise a pandemic. Pandemics are relatively common (HIV, Cholera, Influenza, Typhus, Smallpox, Measles.....) and each outbreak is accompanied by scapegoating and attempts to further political agendas. It's unhelpful to say the least. Roachmill and George. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watter Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Scientists have been warning us for years about a coming pandemic . https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/china-ground-zero-future-pandemic-180965213/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NullVoid Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) Textbook attempts to politicise a pandemic. Pandemics are relatively common (HIV, Cholera, Influenza, Typhus, Smallpox, Measles.....) and each outbreak is accompanied by scapegoating and attempts to further political agendas. It's unhelpful to say the least.Nobody on either side of the political discourse is going to let a good tragedy go to waste. The left in all western countries has been dominated by a religious movement for some time and said movement has alienated many left wing people and caused them to lean more to the right.https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/06/ultracalvinist-hypothesis-in/ Edited March 22, 2020 by NullVoid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davie P Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 What? Digby 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) Nicola Sturgeon warns Scotland’s islands are no-go area Why Westminster’s virus emergency powers bill is a cause for concern Edited March 23, 2020 by George. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 "In the year 2020, if (wo)man is still left alive.........." With sincere apologies to Zager and Evans. they just over-estimated the pace of the progress of human destruction and annhilation by 505 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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