tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post5649115993411004240..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Boris Johnson's Russian RoulettePhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-7193588934053147222021-02-25T13:51:49.431+00:002021-02-25T13:51:49.431+00:00@ Blissex
'with state funded and organized te...@ Blissex<br /><br />'with state funded and organized test-trace-isolate'<br /><br />Another group of people going look, a solution. Not in my area, but someone else's, over there. Track and Trace is impossible in a society like the UK. People have simply refused to co-operate.<br /><br />China achieve success in Track and trace by having tags on people to record if they move out of their rooms, and welding shut the doors to apartment blocks.<br /><br />Is it your view that the UK government should have imprisoned people who refused to co-operate? Should have forcibly restrained people?Dippernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-14884656439192731722021-02-23T19:43:54.059+00:002021-02-23T19:43:54.059+00:00«I wish the opposition would speak up like this.»
...«<i>I wish the opposition would speak up like this.</i>»<br /><br />The present article sadly still uses a thatcherite framing, the hard/soft lockdown choice, a framing that implies that it is the individualistic choice of self-isolation that matters, as summarised in "Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives".<br /><br />The correct argument, that public health problems are best solved with a public approach, with state funded and organized test-trace-isolate, has been made mostly by academics, including at the beginning of last year by the Chief Scientific Office and the Chief Medical Office, and recently for example in "The Guardian" (surprisingly) by prof. D Sridhar and S Reicher. But the Conservatives, LibDems, New New Labour are all committed to the principle that "statism" as in public projects are the first steps on the "road to serfdom", as in nasty socialist hellholes like south Korea or New Zealand :-).Blissexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-16896483927671059012021-02-23T17:16:19.950+00:002021-02-23T17:16:19.950+00:00I wish the opposition would speak up like this. Wh...I wish the opposition would speak up like this. When did it start to be okay to be lame? When life got a bit easy perhaps? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com