We spent £250bn to get us through a COVID pandemic and two years later we can’t handle a fucking flu.

Thank god they gave us all those years of austerity!

Sorry, amateur mistake, I meant Britain.

To be fair it’s not for off in the UK, the rules are so flimsy that the chance of you actually being taken to court is almost zero. So instead you just have to put the angry letters in the bin until they finally get bored.

Paywall

You had a weekend?

In my experience the “politics don’t affect me” or “my vote doesn’t matter” crowd is significant.

You can try engaging them and telling them that politics affects literally everything in their lives or that “the only vote that doesn’t matter is an unused vote” but I’ve found it to be ineffective.

I really don’t know what the answer is apart from waiting for things to get so shit that they are finally motivated to get out and write an X in to the box.

I think part of the issue is that we’re living in a so-called democracy that allows you to do little other than vote once every five years is part of the problem.

I worked for Thames Water for nearly ten years and I can absolutely confirm that the business model is to maximise turnover.

The more turnover, the more you can justify charging the customer and the cream off the top for the shareholders grows.

Interest on debt is just another so called justification to pick our pockets. In my opinion it should be illegal but we live in a world where the rich looks after the rich and fuck anybody else.

Nationalisation is the only solution.

Edit: We should collectively cancel our direct debits and put the ball firmly in to the government’s court.

The whole point of a strike is that it’s meant to be disruptive, that’s how it works as a last resort bargaining tool, it’s astonishing how many people don’t get that.

Imagine if you and all your colleagues went out on strike and their was literally zero impact, it would do nothing other than make your bosses wonder what you’re actually doing all day and wonder why you’re employed in the first place.

So what benefit would there be to the UK and the world of recording COVID infections?

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, you’re absolutely right.

Everyone has had the opportunity for multiple vaccinations, people also know that the chance of COVID affecting you severely is correlated with smoking and obesity, everyone has had plenty of time to lose weight and give up smoking.

Honestly, if COVID is still an issue for you, it’s on you at this point.

Then you also have to ask “what if we see a huge rise in COVID numbers?”. Do you want another set of lock downs? Do you want the government to print another £250 billion and spend it on things that have no intrinsic value and then act surprised when we get 10% inflation and no payrises? Literally, what is the point of recording COVID numbers?

We’re not talking about the use of puberty blockers in cases of precocious puberty, we’re talking about them in cases where they’d block typical puberty in cases of gender dysphoria.

I’d love to know what CEOs actually do all day that justifies their exorbitant wages.

They love to trot out the “we need to attract top talent” line, but what skills, knowledge and experience are they actually providing that couldn’t be done by an 18 year old straight out of school?

The average CEO earns five times the average wage, we all know they aren’t working five times as hard as an average worker.

I know that when you don’t wholly agree with a person that unquestionably goes along with dogma regarding trans rights that it’s only matter of time until the “transphobe” card comes out. It’s no different to debating a Zionist about Palestine’s right to exist, sooner or later you’re going to be accused of being an anti-Semite.

I don’t think that being concerned that children might make decisions they later regret makes me a transphobe, but if you do, you’re entitled to your opinion.

I’ve already conceded that we’re clearly not going to change eachothers minds on the issue. How long are we going to keep banging our heads on the wall?

And here we are. “tRaNsPhObE!”

I’ve explained my point of view succinctly, we disagree, but it has nothing to do with transphobia.

Honestly, people like you are your own worst enemy. Shame on you.

It’s not a warning, I’m just old enough to know pigeon chess when I see it.

Who knows, maybe we’ll get twenty years down the line, the evidence will be there and I’ll be amazed at how wrong I was!

Good luck to you, I wish you all the best.

I’ve said everything I have to say and I can see trying to explain myself further will be fruitless.

If you honestly think that a child could block puberty up to the age of 18 or further and then change their mind and go through a normal puberty like nothing ever happened, then good for you, personally, I’m doubtful.

The main difference with vaccines is the overwhelming medical proof of the benefits, that’s something that currently isn’t there with the use of puberty blockers during the years you would typically go through it.

I do somewhat agree with your less harm premise. If a child literally threatens to kill themselves, then as a parent you’d feel like you had little choice in the matter, however if there are permanent side effects and the child, now as a young adult starts regretting their decision, it’s going to be shit for everyone.

Which is what would happen if they decided not to go thru with transitioning as an adult…

That is quite obviously an assumption. You are extrapolating data and although I see the logic of your argument, it’s bad science. The rest of your comment is based on this premise.