In that sense you have successfully engaged me in your scheme and neatly turned it round to you being victimised by meany ol' me. Well done, bravo.
The thing is, people will start to question and maybe not take the many, many, lexically overlapping 'profiles' at face value.
And when I say 'people', I mean the ones who I'll debate with regardless of a difference of opinion because they are clearly genuine and one of a kind.
The more the virus spreads the more it can spread; the more it can spread, the more it can mutate; the more strains that are successfully vax resistent, the more it will spread; the more it spreads the more people die regardless of political beliefs.
From a purely pragmatic, self-servng point of view without a hint of human kindness, we need to protect everyone to protect ourselves.
We also need to protect ourselves to protect everyone else, so those of us who have been vaccinated are protecting those who haven't. That's our gift to the anti-vaxxers, although I would prefer if that gift could have been reserved for children.
Then why aren't you curious and why don't you respect other people's views?
Do you really think people here are so stupid they don't see your furtive dismisals, disrespect and contradictions about being open-minded even before comments are made?
Please think up some original techniques of manipulation and loaded narratives. At least provide a little bit of intellectual challenge when trying to take us for fools.
Both were poorly executed and dangerous restraints.
I dare say staff did what they thought was appropriate, but so did Derek Chauvin.
I would say it's a matter of culpability now. The airline might be at fault for not training staff, nor providing safe restraint equipment. On the other hand, staff may have not adhered to protocol and/or allowed an emotional/vindictive element to over-rule their training.
A passenger trying to open a door and attacking staff mid-flight is a safety concern, but not surprising - that should have been prepared for.
A restrained passenger making noise is not a safety concern, so taping up her mouth really needs to be investigated.
There are other ways of restraining and diffusing.
Would you suggest that the only alternative to murdering George Floyd was giving him a coffee and doughnut?
Duct taping a passenger to a chair with their hands behind them and duct tape blocking an airway could have ended in disaster.
Clearly the duct tape over this woman's mouth had nothing to do with passenger safety given she couldn't move. That was done to shut her up in the interests of other people's comfort.
If she was trying to get out of the plane during flight, she clearly wasn't acting rationally. I think the days of tying up and caging people with psycholgical aberrations ended a while back.
Steward staff should be trained to restrain safely and humanely, as well as with techniques to diffuse volatile situations. Is it really that much of a surprise that a passenger might experience mental ill-health and panic mid-flight?
Surely that is assault, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, or any number of violations?
It's one thing to restrain a passenger who poses a threat, but duct taping them to a seat and over an airway is surely inappropriate, especially given the woman was acting irrationally.
I wonder how many women feel like they've been reminded of their place as a result of the wording of that declaration and the action of releasing this 'man'.
The UK failed to lockdown early enough to avoid the UK getting totally bolluxed and relaxed restrictions too early last summer which is why our second wave was so bad.
I don't think we can rely upon Boris Johnson making the best decisions. His eagerness to reopen the economy has been an expensive mistake, costing us more in the long run.
Having got this far with the vaccination programme his decision to reopen on July 19th come what may, could jeopardise the progress we have made.
I don't think any of the other UK countries are opening up next week. As Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each have some level of independence, we can use more cautious strategies.
Not just hospitals and supplies, Johnny, but why wasn't there a global strategy in place in anticipation of a global pandemic?
Clearly some countries were ready to go with vaccines, others had effective test and trace strategies in place, some reduced the impact through border controls and other physical mechanisms.
Why didn't we all combine knowledge and other resources and develop a synergistic, co-ordinated, centralised system in the interests of all countries and peoples?
When recovery teams were searching through the ashes and debris of Genfell Tower, it was like, "Is this a bone, or a bit of chair leg?"
The heat was so intense a lot of bodies were incinerated.
There was also no clear idea of how many people perished: people may have had guests, there may have been undocumented immgrants and homeless people may have been sleeping in stairwells.
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RE: Is Fear the Real Virus?
Do you think people are too stupid to see that your whole blog is about spreading negativity?