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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

RichA said:
Oxymoronic comedy gold.
This is an internet forum on the website of a golf magazine. There is no hierarchy among us. Any comments should be scrutinised within the house rules - even those of self-appointed experts.
It's a golf forum, not a public inquiry.
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That is a really stupid response which utterly mischaracterises the previous discussion. I am not a self-appointed expert. There is nothing wrong or hierarchical with asking you to use some actual arguments and facts rather than vacuous generalisations. But when they run out, you revert to personal criticism. Have I criticised you for being unqualified to say what you have said?

I give my opinion, and will break it down so that the logic should be clear. You can believe it, ignore it, or print it off and wipe your arse on it for all I care. If you don't like what I say, tell me why I am wrong. Try a grown up approach, you might even get to like it.

I note you don't criticise others for making sweeping generalisations, or muse whether they are self-appointed experts in macroeconomics or international trade. I wonder why?
 
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Because they're generalists, not experts, and generally keep it general.
It's the internet equivalent of a conversation down the pub. We aren't likely to be solving anything here - we're chatting.
 
Ethan said:
That is a really stupid response which utterly mischaracterises the previous discussion. I am not a self-appointed expert. There is nothing wrong or hierarchical with asking you to use some actual arguments and facts rather than vacuous generalisations. But when they run out, you revert to personal criticism. Have I criticised you for being unqualified to say what you have said?

I give my opinion, and will break it down so that the logic should be clear. You can believe it, ignore it, or print it off and wipe your arse on it for all I care. If you don't like what I say, tell me why I am wrong. Try a grown up approach, you might even get to like it.

I note you don't criticise others for making sweeping generalisations, or muse whether they are self-appointed experts in macroeconomics or international trade. I wonder why?
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Your medical knowledge is clear and I respect the comments you make in that context. However IMO you do turn unnecessarily arrogant and show contempt when posters give differing views.

The core of the thread is the views and effect on individuals of COVID 19.
 
Ethan said:
Are you talking about GPs?
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Not at all. I mean the other folks on here engaging in the chat, expressing their opinions based on their experiences, what they've read, what they know, regardless of their professional qualifications or occupation.
I'm rather hoping that anyone who has time to spend on this forum and playing as much golf as I am isn't advising the government on pandemic management or economic policy.
 
drdel said:
Your medical knowledge is clear and I respect the comments you make in that context. However IMO you do turn unnecessarily arrogant and show contempt when posters give differing views.

The core of the thread is the views and effect on individuals of COVID 19.
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I look for coherent arguments, but it seems that people revert to personal or professional criticism. I have never commented about whether anybody else here is qualified to do their job or has a limited view as a result, yet others are happy to throw that at me. If someone summarily dismisses a range of points I have made without any coherent arguments, I am going to push back. If you consider that arrogant, fine, have at it.

I note you haven't criticised other peoples' sweeping declarations about all manners of stuff in the same way.
 
Yeah it's my ball and if you don't let me be captain, striker and score all the goals, I'm going to cry.

There is a columnist in Private Eye who has the first two pages of each issue going on about covid. They obviously know their subject and are involved at a high level but come across as so arrogant and "I could have told you exactly what would happen with my perfect 20-20 hindsight" that it detracts from the very good message that could come across.
 
On the issue of the Cygnus pandemic exercise, which someone believes was totally ignored…there’s a shock.

There was plenty of detail in the previous COVID thread about elements of the recommendations being implemented. Also some elements that were, sadly, ignored. And some elements that were already in place. For example, PPE & visors/glasses. Changes were decided upon and (fragmented) implementation had started ——- this issue was in the previous thread, including supporting links.

It was beaten to death in the last thread, and I can’t be ‘arrise arguing about it again but to say it was totally ignored is, at best, ignorant.
 
Covid was fuel for the American culture war, as almost anything can be.

Everybody in my family has had both jabs, but I have neighbors who won't participate for reasons well outside the realm of sanity.

As we're not authorized to humanely euthanize them, all we can do is avoid them, I guess.
 
Notice the NHS app has updated to show basically a covid passport just not called it yet

That should increase uptake
 
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