O/T:- Climate Change

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Originally Posted by the_anticlough

So glad you're around to say these things, Swale. I know you write it as a poster and not a moderator but you do a bloody good job at checking the misinformation on here :)

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Yes. At times the things that people deny and arrive at conspiracy theories is mind-numbing.

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Originally Posted by queenslandpie

If I were you enjoy the large onions and your family mate. Cheers QP.

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Thank you QP, I'm enjoying both as usual, especially this fine specimen:

https://i.postimg.cc/qMT1fgYT/onion-2.jpg

It weighed in at 1.56 Kg or 3lb 7oz in old money. I've grown a couple of bigger ones, but this is the most aesthetically beautiful. Perfectly proportioned, and curves in all the right places. It's been a variable summer over here, but generally quite good for growing. Just a hobby for me, but when crops fail due to extreme weather in places like Africa it becomes literally a matter of life and death.

But some won't care, because they're Africans.

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Originally Posted by SmiffyPie

Yes. At times the things that people deny and arrive at conspiracy theories is mind-numbing.

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Well said mate. Yes, the truth's taken a battering with the likes of Trump and Johnson - but it's based on taking people for fools and most people aren't!

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

But some won't care, because they're Africans.

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What a ridiculous thing to say.

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

https://i.postimg.cc/qMT1fgYT/onion-2.jpg

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I'd get your right testicle checked out - something's not quite right there

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Originally Posted by SmiffyPie

What a ridiculous thing to say.

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I wish it was. They are a small and diminishing minority, but they definitely exist.

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Originally Posted by the_anticlough

I'd get your right testicle checked out - something's not quite right there

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Funny you should say that, I went to the doctor and told him the left one had shrunk.

I'm surprised your missus doesn't buy you some trimming scissors for the right one.

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Originally Posted by SwalePie

6,918,076 deaths to date would make me consider the Covid-19 pandemic (I presume you meant that one) fairly serious.

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Genuine question; does anyone know of a person that died directly due to Covid?
I know of 4 people that died (my grandad being one) and were stated as a Covid death, purely because they had Covid when they died. It played no part in them dying!
My grandad had terminal cancer and was 6 months past the doctors estimated life expectancy. He went into hospital when he took a turn for the worst. He died 5 days later and was classed as a Covid death.
He tested negative when he first arrived at the hospital and was tested again after he passed away!

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Originally Posted by kill_the_drum

Genuine question; does anyone know of a person that died directly due to Covid?

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Impossible to put a specific number on it but the fact that average deaths worldwide jumped markedly during Covid should tell you something.

What we knew very early is that those most at risk were the elderly with underlying medical conditions. That's why it was criminal to allow untested people back into care homes, where the vast majority who lived there were the elderly with underlying medical conditions. A lot of them probably didn't have a lot of time left, but they didn't need to die before their time.