It never really made much sense did it.

I mean half of the workforce had to carry on regardless....they bet the house on slowing infection down with the idea that respiratory vaccines, designed within a year, would be a silver bullet (when that type of vaccine never has been)

Like most policies in the modern day it was primarily driven by emotion and that feminine obsession with safety at all costs...even costs we can't afford.

Pretty much the only sensible thing Johnson said was at the start (which had been decades old pandemic policy)....but within a week they had got to him.

Edited by Stirlingsays (01 Sep 2022 3.24pm)

during the lockdown I was doing a prescription run and on the way back I met a bin man.

I shouted across and thanked him for all his work during the lockdown. He shouted back: "All this for a bit of flu!"

"Well", I said, "that's ok so long as you don't mind losing your grannie"

"Oh, that's ok", he replied, "I don't have a grannie".

Oh well.

Yeah. "Bloody teachers: start work at 9, leave at 3, all those effing holidays and all they do is moan."

Familiar?

Yet, during the pandemic, after the first lockdown, when it was announced that schools would re-open and kids go back, you could almost hear a cheer all around the country.
All those who had slagged teachers off had suddenly realised how skilled a job it is to teach the young mind.

When we did go back, I had to regularly run the gauntlet, walking down crowded corridors of students to get to my class room, many of them refusing to wear masks.

Came across one group of lads - brickies- none wearing masks. when I asked them to put them on: "Don't see the f***ing point" one said and all his mates nodded.

A week later (9th Dec) I was flat-packed in my bed and very seriously ill. Totally fuxcked. Couldn't return to work until Feb and even then just knocked out. Infected my wife and daughter, too.

I wish that effing student had seen me. Then he would've seen the point.

But hey. Bloody teachers, eh? Always whining. Lol

Don't deserve anything. Why can't they be happy with 1.5% to reward them and be happy. Always bloody whining.

The trouble is that companies continually want to drive wages down further and further. Concerning the highlighted bit, Dolph, P&O Ferries just sacked their staff (by video, without any warning) in total and took on 'agency' staff, all working below the minimum working wage and were simply allowed to do so. It was found not to be illegal and they get away with it. What a message to send to other companies. That kind of practice ought to be against labour law, surely? P&O today, you and me tomorrow.

If this is 'getting real' well, I just don't know. I would say that it better to protect hard working people rather than just simply be jealous of public sector staff and support a 'race to the bottom' for all.

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