If the government cared about saving lives, they'd make it easier for mask-wearing to be enforced socially.
They'd remind us everyday: "This is what the official exemption badge looks like. So anyone not wearing this or a mask in an indoor public place should be challenged."
They sent out thousands of shielding letters in April. Even fewer people have legitimate actual exemptions. So it would be EASY to get them an official badge/lanyard.
This is necessary to make economy covid-secure, but they're just not doing it!
Given that public compliance with lockdown rules is the main factor in whether 1000s of UK businesses close...
When Boris Johnson said travelling across the country with Coronavirus was OK, he was choosing Dominic Cummings' job over the jobs of millions of people across the UK.
There's no other way of looking at it. They literally deleted the stay home advice so that Cummings could keep his job.
Can you imagine if the government put as much effort into explaining why lockdown rules are important, as they put into explaining why it's OK for their mates to break them?
"People with mask exemptions shouldn't have to label themselves".
🙄LOGIC PEOPLE!🙄
Anyone not wearing a mask in shops either has a medical reason or they're a criminally selfish virus-spreading ******.
It objectively improves how people see them if we know they're the former!
If they're not wearing a mask, people KNOW they're one of the two!
I can't believe how many tweets I just saw comparing medical mask exemption badges to making people wear armbands. I'm guessing those same people led a campaign against disable parking stickers too, right?
I'm talking about something whose primary function is to protect the medically vulnerable from being challenged for it in public!
It's secondary function is allowing the country to strictly enforce something that's necessary to prevent thousands dying.
One day Americans will realise that ideologies like Trump's attitude to Coronavirus (killed 150,000 extra people compared to countries that locked down well) or the 2nd Amendment (kills 30,000/year) ... are far more dangerous than any terrorist or extreme religion. #Election2020
Maths proof:
US Coronavirus deaths = 210,000
Death rate = 0.064%
Germany Coronavirus deaths = 10,000
Death rate = 0.012%
If America had Germany's death rate, then only 39,518 people would have died from Coronavirus. That's 170,000 less.
I was being generous with 150,000.
If you're wondering how the UK stacks up.
We've had 42,369 deaths that have been officially labelled as "from Covid" (I know excess deaths is much higher).
If the UK had Germany's death rate, then only 7,952 people would have died.
Can someone explain how it's controversial to say that government policy should reflect the manifestos that the majority vote for... #MakeVotesMatter@MakeVotesMatter
In 2017, 54% voted for parties with manifestos that promised to stay in the Single Market regardless of whether we left the EU, and ruled out No-Deal.
We got a "No-Deal is better than a bad deal" government, hell bent on taking us out of the single market. #MakeVotesMatter
The 2019 election was the only chance the country had to say whether the Brexit that the government had spent 3 years negotiating was actually the will of the people.
And again 52.7% voted manifestos stating NOT to leave on those terms without a 2nd referendum. #MakeVotesMatter
It's weird that Right-wing people are so defensive about being called right-wing... Almost as if they know there's something wrong with it.
If you think society prioritises the needs and feelings of minorities and financially poor people too much, you're right wing. Own it!
One of my best friends refers to himself as economically Conservative but socially Liberal. That means he's right wing when it comes to taxes and the economy but Left-wing when it comes to race, gender, sexutality etc.
The political spectrum doesn't just exist on one axis.
I just realised that makes him the exact opposite of "Blue Labour" who seem to have his line of "We want high-taxes but we're still racist". 😅