October 26, 20205 yr 3 hours ago, WingZ said: Unless it is to demonstrate how lucky you and your clientele are that the vast majority of Kiwis understood the rules during our lockdowns, and Played the Game. That right there is the key point that -- let's be charitable and say "simplistic" -- arguments about how we can't "afford" to shut down the economy are missing. You cannot have a healthy economy if you don't have a healthy population. Just because you worship at the altar of Mammon and put your own profits above the health of your employees doesn't mean that your customers are going to come to you if they can't do it without a non-trivial risk of catching a potentially lethal disease. (Never mind that "shutting down" isn't a binary thing. You can have a whole range of effective measures between no restrictions and total stay-at-home quarantine. But subtlety of thought and the appreciation of nuance is something else that is distinctly lacking in many people there days.)
October 27, 20205 yr Author 5 hours ago, Ron Attwood said: Not the least of which are our 'leaders' Our 'leaders' know what they are doing for their own agendas. Do you ever wonder why they lie, steal, cheat, bite kick and gouge and spend millions to get a job that pays less than most of them could earn making an honest living? The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
October 27, 20205 yr 23 minutes ago, birdguy said: Do you ever wonder why they lie, steal, cheat, bite kick and gouge and spend millions to get a job that pays less than most of them could earn making an honest living? Some because they truly believe in public service and the public sector. Others only because they see it as a path to private riches for themselves and their masters.. You can generally tell which is which by how hard they try to destroy the functional machinery of government once they're in there, replacing it with the transfer of power and lucre into private hands. Edited October 27, 20205 yr by kaosfere
October 27, 20205 yr 10 hours ago, WingZ said: Also by the elderly. Which always strikes me as odd, because masking up is meant to protect others from your excretions, rather than shield the vulnerable from infection. Actually, it does both.. 😉 Bert
October 27, 20205 yr Moderator On 10/25/2020 at 4:23 PM, birdguy said: But it probably won't see the light of day here. It saw the light but is going to drift into the same path the last few Covid posts went. Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
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