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I think they will use it as an excuse yes although I don’t blame them, it’s a good opportunity.
In terms of the new variant, it was found within vaccinated people in SA so doesn’t that suggest that we’re going to continually get these mutations?
This omicron variant isn’t going to be the last one, obviously. But we already knew that double vaxxed people can get infected. We also know that, in general, they will have a better clinical outcome. We further know that there is a significant community prevalence of HIV in SA, which will affect response to vaccination and represents the ideal breeding ground for new variants.
So you can’t draw broad conclusions based on this. All we can do is respond swiftly to it. In my opinion, we should not have made masks voluntary in shops. Reinstating masks and travel restriction are essential steps.
Apologies if this has been answered before but what studies are there showing wearing of masks actually rescue transmission ?
I fail to see how the wafer thin paper surgical masks actually stop a virus ?
Is it just a sort of placebo affect where if someone is wearing a mask/ facecovering you tend to distance yourself more from them ?
I'd be interested if there are any links you can point me towards.
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Tightening up of mask wearing in retail and public transport. When pushed I think that was said to be made mandatory again - certainly hope so. I can be even more irked at the muppets in Lidl this week if so!
Genuine question
Why?
I don’t personally believe in this particular story or motive etc however there does seem to be a real trend over the last few years of banning perceived ‘conspiracy theories’
Genuinely. How do you determine what constitutes the ‘truth’ or what constitutes ‘conspiracy’?
The predominant force between truth and conspiracy is largely based on opinion.
Every argument for and against will be a legitimate collection of perfectly reasoned arguments, theories, facts, rumours and data.
Who decides what’s true or not? Or are you basing this on your own personally held opinion?
Also (and i type this respectfully) what gives you the right to overrule on opposite opinion?
Worse still, what gives you the right to purge another persons beliefs from existence by deleting posts?
That’s quite scary in my opinion.
Surely the responsible approach would be to allow those you believe are making stuff up, to post freely
Then to have others (whose opinions you align too) show why exactly they are taking out of their bottoms, through a reasoned, impassioned and detailed counter argument?
Would that not be more effective?
That’s quite scary in my opinion.
You realise that this is just an internet forum hosted by the website of a golf magazine?Worse still, what gives you the right to purge another persons beliefs from existence by deleting posts?
That’s quite scary in my opinion.
What scares you?
You realise that this is just an internet forum hosted by the website of a golf magazine?
I don't think the moderators are capable of purging your beliefs from existence - just from their internet forum, hosted by the website of a golf magazine.
The censorship of differing opinions.
I think there's a big difference between stating an opinion and promoting a conspiracy theory.
This rule didn't appear to apply to the Brexit threads.....??
All new variants will eventually make it onto our shores, nothing you can do to stop it. Putting the African countries on the red list will buy us a little time for more research to have been done on the variant however, as mentioned, there's probably a fair chance that it's here already.
I think there's a big difference between stating an opinion and promoting a conspiracy theory.
Genuine question
Why?
I don’t personally believe in this particular story or motive etc however there does seem to be a real trend over the last few years of banning perceived ‘conspiracy theories’
Genuinely. How do you determine what constitutes the ‘truth’ or what constitutes ‘conspiracy’?
The predominant force between truth and conspiracy is largely based on opinion.
Every argument for and against will be a legitimate collection of perfectly reasoned arguments, theories, facts, rumours and data.
Who decides what’s true or not? Or are you basing this on your own personally held opinion?
Also (and i type this respectfully) what gives you the right to overrule on opposite opinion?
Worse still, what gives you the right to purge another persons beliefs from existence by deleting posts?
That’s quite scary in my opinion.
Surely the responsible approach would be to allow those you believe are making stuff up, to post freely
Then to have others (whose opinions you align too) show why exactly they are taking out of their bottoms, through a reasoned, impassioned and detailed counter argument?
Would that not be more effective?
I’m not sure.
They are both just opinions based on a both persons knowledge of a subject, plus a healthy dose of bias (on both sides).
As others have said, GM have a corporate image to protect, it is nothing to do with my personal views.
We are a golf forum, first and foremost,
Conspiracy theories can spread false information, which some people will read and believe.