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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Kaz said:
Need to define "political" then. Some things obviously impacted - criticising politicians for example. But can you critically discuss the covid rules? If not can you mention covid rules? Not even how they impact amateur and professional golf? Can we even discuss the pandemic at all? That's just one example.

Politics are interwoven into our lives and society. Completely impossible to just say "no politics" and expect everyone to draw the line in the same place.
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I think as long as you avoid criticizing the current government you'll be fine. ;)
 
Kaz said:
Need to define "political" then. Some things obviously impacted - criticising politicians for example. But can you critically discuss the covid rules? If not can you mention covid rules? Not even how they impact amateur and professional golf? Can we even discuss the pandemic at all? That's just one example.

Politics are interwoven into our lives and society. Completely impossible to just say "no politics" and expect everyone to draw the line in the same place.
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Yes I know it’s not an easy ask ,as you say politics is everywhere

I can’t give hard and fast guidelines, but Mikes note about political posts is the only instruction we have had

Therefore it’s down to individual moderator discretion

Not what you want, but best I can do

Short answer, nothing remotely political anywhere on the forum
 
PhilTheFragger said:
Yes I know it’s not an easy ask ,as you say politics is everywhere

I can’t give hard and fast guidelines, but Mikes note about political posts is the only instruction we have had

Therefore it’s down to individual moderator discretion

Not what you want, but best I can do

Short answer, nothing remotely political anywhere on the forum
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How very 'politic' of you! :D:D

Btw. From memory, it was 'Political Threads' rather than 'Political Posts' that Mike deemed no longer 'acceptable'. Obviously, there's signifgicant potential for individual posts to cross an equivalent boundary, but most posters should be able to get the message - and the 'Report' function and Mod discretion should surely be sufficient! It certainly seems to have been reasonable since Mike's announcement.
 
Kaz said:
Need to define "political" then. Some things obviously impacted - criticising politicians for example. But can you critically discuss the covid rules? If not can you mention covid rules? Not even how they impact amateur and professional golf? Can we even discuss the pandemic at all? That's just one example.

Politics are interwoven into our lives and society. Completely impossible to just say "no politics" and expect everyone to draw the line in the same place.
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The title of this thread is a bit of a giveaway.

Surely this one was to give forum members an opportunity to describe how they or their nearest and dearest had been directly or indirectly affected by the virus

This thread was never intended to be a critique of the authorities and their handling of the situation.

That role was undertaken by a separate thread started I believe by AmandaJR and which very quickly degenerated into a series of dogmatic arguments and expressions of political prejudices.

Surely there is no shortage of political forums that those who wish to continue those arguments could visit.
 
MetalMickie said:
The title of this thread is a bit of a giveaway.

Surely this one was to give forum members an opportunity to describe how they or their nearest and dearest had been directly or indirectly affected by the virus

This thread was never intended to be a critique of the authorities and their handling of the situation.

That role was undertaken by a separate thread started I believe by AmandaJR and which very quickly degenerated into a series of dogmatic arguments and expressions of political prejudices.

Surely there is no shortage of political forums that those who wish to continue those arguments could visit.
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You had a prejudices yourself, as I recall. It is naive to think that commenting on the state of things without touching, at least tangentially, on politics is feasible.

So, in a real example, in your opinion, if my son's best friend is unable to get a Covid test because of the state of NHS Test and Trace, is commenting adversely on that situation political?
 
Ethan said:
You had a prejudices yourself, as I recall. It is naive to think that commenting on the state of things without touching, at least tangentially, on politics is feasible.

So, in a real example, in your opinion, if my son's best friend is unable to get a Covid test because of the state of NHS Test and Trace, is commenting adversely on that situation political?
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No comment!

Or put another way, not interested.
 
Ethan said:
You had a prejudices yourself, as I recall. It is naive to think that commenting on the state of things without touching, at least tangentially, on politics is feasible.

So, in a real example, in your opinion, if my son's best friend is unable to get a Covid test because of the state of NHS Test and Trace, is commenting adversely on that situation political?
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Yea but no but
 
Ethan said:
You had a prejudices yourself, as I recall. It is naive to think that commenting on the state of things without touching, at least tangentially, on politics is feasible.

So, in a real example, in your opinion, if my son's best friend is unable to get a Covid test because of the state of NHS Test and Trace, is commenting adversely on that situation political?
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Potentially
 
pauldj42 said:
Not aimed at you Colchester(y)

But isn’t this a perfect example of the problem, this is the Governments diagram, so therefore commenting on it and the right and wrongs of it is political.
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Ah good point, I hadn't thought of that. It does seem that this whole not being political thing is a bit of a minefield.
 
Kaz said:
Timing of the ban just as everything went into meltdown was surely coincidental... ;)
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To be fair one could argue that things have been in a bit of meltdown for a long time.

I'm off course talking about the polar ice caps. Global warming bad.
 
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