« Reply #44 on: Wednesday 30 September 20 15:36 BST (UK) »
Whilst I'm sure many of the protestors just disagree on how to manage covid I cannot agree that the general consensus that they agree it's both real and serious. Having read their placards and comments they have made on Twitter that is not the case for a lot of them. Comments range from "it's just a cold" and "it's just the flu" underplaying the seriousness of the illness and belying a lack of understanding of 'flu' imo to "I'm fit it won't bother me, I'll be fine" which to me is accepting the potential seriousness but complete seriousness. Then there are others calling it "scamdemic", saying "it's a fake illness", "they're lying about how many have died " etc. Proponents of these views have been across the whole spectrum of ages.
Ref the 1960s::
That just about describes the attitude of one of my offspring born 1965, who believes somebody that she describes as being a "paramedic". This person states a scam is being perpetrated and covid-19 is just a flu and there's no need to take extreme lockdown isolation precautions . Her brother born 1966 takes totally the opposite view and joins with me that we should take precautions, which will leave the NHS and private health personnel more equipment and more hours to care for patients who have other ailments, such as cancers and heart and chest problems, etc., etc.
P.S. I have to state that I have an interest in people following the latest "best practice" as my hospital oppointment has been cancelled time & time again for seven months during which time I have had an extremely painful eye. I saw the specialist this week and he is referring me to another hospital.
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