Lighthouse

Brett likes to say things which are known truths to anybody with a rudimentary understanding of science, but nuanced in a way which makes them sound like government conspiracies.

Good, he’s struggling for form, hasn’t scored for a while and needs a goal to boost his confidence. We all know how that ends.

WTF was up with Bachman there? Brentford went to grab the ball back off him, he goes down like he’s been on the receiving end of a rock bottom and needs 5 minutes of medical treatment.

I am with you on that one. I do love the run up to a general election, when people are being interviewed in the streets and some 21 stone bloke claims the Tories are crippling the NHS. If people won’t lose weight to prevent heart disease, bowel cancer, hypertension, stroke, osteoarthritis, liver disease, chronic muscle pain and 1,000 other medical conditions, I doubt they will for covid either, sadly. Still, I don’t think it necessarily follows that anti-vaxxers are by default Abercrombie and Fitch models with shredded abs, like the guy in your photo.

Really sorry to hear that Winner, cancer is an awful, awful disease I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Stay strong, I hope you have good people to support you.

This has been explained to you already. The vast majority of us got vaccinated on the back of sound medical advice, not political coercion. Most of us are not scared, we're bored and fed up of restrictions which we all want to be over. The people who ARE scared, perhaps you should take a moment to consider what life is like for some of them. There's a senior couple two doors down from me, who share part of a garden fence, who have been advised by their doctor (who is unfortunately an oncologist) to avoid physical contact as much as possible. They've both had their jabs but the old boy has leukemia and COVID could well be the end of him. Still, haha what a scared sheep. No, they don't want to control our lives, they want our ecconomy open for business, our trade and borders moving and their noses back in the trough. Boris is not sat in #10 doing a maniacal laugh because he made me wear a surgical mask in Tesco for ten minutes. Completely false comparison. So the government have done nothing to increase capacity, other than to temporarily increase capacity, which fortunately wasn't needed? No. Nobody wants that, but it might end up being a necessity. That photo is just nonsense and a complete strawman.

This moment isn’t going down too well. I don’t know whether to feel sorry for them or sorry for us because some considered them to be our better defenders when they left.

Good, that place is a complete eyesore.

Ultimately, there’s only one stat which really matters and it’s this one. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=overview&areaName=United Kingdom We all got together for Xmas, nobody was vaccinated, the Delta variant was prevalent and hospital admissions skyrocketed. We locked down just in time to prevent a healthcare disaster. WITH vaccinations hospital numbers have fluctuated around 7-9,000 for the last five months, even though there have been no other restrictions on society. That’s been the difference, it’s as clear as day and I’ve no idea why people are trying to make a case for not getting jabbed.

To answer your question directly, I’m still more concerned about the hypothetical careful anti-vaxxer. Not because I’m more worried they will infect me - The vaccines effect on transmissibility is still not proven - but because they are far more likely to need hospital treatment at some point, regardless of how often they get tested. That’s the issue, rising infections lead to rising hospital admissions, the NHS reaches a critical mass of patients again and we end up in lockdown.

Except those aren’t the options. A very large number of anti-vaxxers refuse to admit there is any kind of threat at all, never get tested and refuse to comply with masks and SD whenever possible. Jabbed people aren’t as cavalier as that either. I never stopped wearing masks in shops and I’d say about half the people I saw didn’t either.

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/127373-worst-player-to-wear-the-shirt-in-the-prem-era/ Nominated for an 'award'.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59587170 The lowest rated player on the pitch was Bertrand, with an average of 3.6/10. Edit: Had a quick peruse of the Foxes forum and this gem was at the top: https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/127373-worst-player-to-wear-the-shirt-in-the-prem-era/

Again, all a complete misconception. Nobody who got vaccinated did so because they were hoodwinked by the superior intellect of Boris and chums. We did it because that’s what the overwhelming majority of doctors, scientists and their peer reviewed studies indicate is the best course of action and we aren’t arrogant or obstinate enough to think we know better. Completely false, it’s the other way around. I don’t know which Facebook blog you read than from but it’s more like that percentage of UNvaccinated people in hospital. 12% of adults making up 70% of hospitalisations. Bravo and a slow clap to them. As for vaccine passports, none of that would be needed at all if people would just get vaccinated.

Because they were being extra, extra, extra cautious because they know if there's any hint of health risks associated with the vaccine - even if they're as likely as a blood clot from eating a burger or catching a flight - people like you will use it as 'evidence' against them.

That's total conjecture and based on no information at all. Just a wild assumption. The infection level has fluctuated around a similar for about 4 months now, despite 12% of adults being completely unvaccinated. If everyone WAS vaccinated, the chances are the R number would drop significantly and it may well go away, like every other disease we've successfully vaccinated against. Complete myth. Anti vaxxers like to see themselves as some sort of freedom fighter, the only ones who are awake to the real information and willing to stand up to some sort of tyrannical government. The only people living in fear are those who are clinically vulnerable - people who's life anti-vaxxers are unwilling to help save because their 'rights' are more important. Everyone else is bored. Bored of this virus and bored of the fact that we are facing more restrictions because hospitals are filling up with unvaccinated idiots.

Willy is obviously going to start but I wouldn't get my hopes up over him being anything more than a mediocre stand in for McC. He's 40 years old and without a club for a reason.

I’ll do that if you go down to your local Covid ward and chat to the people on medical ventilators who are young and healthy, did their own research and didn’t get vaccinated because they weren’t sheep.

Large pharmaceutical companies in wanting their arse to be water tight against any form of litigation shocker. It’s evidence of absolutely nothing and so is that video.

It’s not experimental. It’s passed every regulatory standard required and has proven to be hugely effective worldwide. There is no ‘tyranny’, nor is there an ‘apartheid’, which both seem to be popular buzzwords for people who’ve never lived through any kind of tyranny or apartheid.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59589775 An interesting take on the 'what about smokers' argument.

It's so sh*t that it was clearly only ever going to look lame and cynical. Boris and his spin doctors would have known that and if anything I'd say it's somewhat unfortunate for them. Given choice they probably would have preferred to wait until next week so it DOESN'T look like a sh*te attempt at a diversion.

Storm Barra is a distraction from JWP's awful cross-field pass. Doesn't mean anyone is going to just forget about it.

Bingo. I see a lot of people who are clearly anything but distracted saying, "this is a distraction!"

So you’d basically do exactly the same as the government? We are ‘living with this’ and ‘getting on with our lives’. There haven’t been any notable restrictions in this country for six months now. We’re taking a cautious approach to a new variant who’s effects and transmissibility are not fully understood. The booster is a vaccine, I don’t understand what you mean. No, that’s what has been recorded so far, that isn’t to say it isn’t dangerous. We’re taking preventative measures, whilst we gather more data, which is the sensible approach. This story is ongoing and will be so for weeks. They’ve been burned for waiting too long to lockdown and close borders in the past, they’re hardly going to do that again. As bad as the timing looks, I don’t think they’ve done anything wrong regarding Omicron, so far. The Xmas party is a different topic.