Howling at the moon or credible scenario? Mass law-breaking

[Rewulf]

4 minutes ago, Vince Green said:

They do round here in London, especially if you are young black and driving a BMW. Random stops are how they catch people

They pretty much do everywhere, like you say , if the face , or car, doesnt fit , or is acting oddly, you will get a tug.

The libs constantly complain about it , as it 'discrimination' if the recipient of the attention is a minority.
The same people complain about police underfunding when they are a victim of crime , but hey ho...

The calls and plans for more stops are already being decried as we speak by the usual 'suspects'
The same ones who also call for more help for the, err 'refugees' paddling across the channel in droves on a daily basis.

[udderlyoffroad]

1 hour ago, Rewulf said:

The libs constantly complain about it , as it 'discrimination' if the recipient of the attention is a minority.
The same people complain about police underfunding when they are a victim of crime , but hey ho...

Indeed.  How Dawn Butler still has a front-bench job confuddles me.  She was actively caught goading the police, despite the fact she accused them of racism when the vehicle concerned had tinted windows and the officers couldn't possibly have known the ethnicity of the driver...

[JohnfromUK]

On 30/07/2021 at 14:02, Rewulf said:

What they are not having, is much increased deaths and hospitalisations, much like the UK.

Florida.  Sadly - the favourable lack hospitalisation may have been just 'lag'.  It seems hospitalisations are rising fast.

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-7ca97f0d685ab25559cf9b51cfc077eb

 

[Gordon R]

JohnfromUK - It is a bit unfair to post another snippet, showing that Florida is not as good as the Governor would have us (or maybe just one of us) believe. 🤣

[JohnfromUK]

1 minute ago, Gordon R said:

JohnfromUK - It is a bit unfair to post another snippet, showing that Florida is not as good as the Governor would have us (or maybe just one of us) believe. 🤣

Actually - I even did my research into the news provider before posting (to make sure they were neither extreme left or right wing) because I know little about the US news companies.  It seems that AP news are fairly 'central' and regarded as 'reliable'. - I also wanted to be very careful to be 'non personal' to any other participants in the thread.

[Mice!]

6 hours ago, JohnfromUK said:

Florida.  Sadly - the favourable lack hospitalisation may have been just 'lag'.  It seems hospitalisations are rising fast.

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-7ca97f0d685ab25559cf9b51cfc077eb

 

Over 10,000 hospitalised but all anyone will say is how many are dying. 

Simply having that people in hospital for a few days will tie up the service .

Whatever the current figures are over here they won't be correct,  because nobody of school age or in education will be testing now it's the holidays unless they actually have symptoms, why would they.

[udderlyoffroad]

1 hour ago, Mice! said:

Whatever the current figures are over here they won't be correct,  because nobody of school age or in education will be testing now it's the holidays unless they actually have symptoms, why would they.

But what is correct?

Look at it another way.  Healthy people aren't getting tested.  That strikes me as more 'correct' than schoolkids testing positive (whether they're positive and otherwise unaffected or cheating the tests) - the virus is out there and airborne after all.

Mass routine testing of groups who aren't badly affected is not normal life.  Arguably the culture of fear this is instilling in vulnerable young minds is causing more damage than the virus itself.