O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[BanjoPie]

Not if you can get your enemy scared enough to believe its' deadly, as we found to our cost.

The Mirror 24th January 2020

"Chilling footage shows people collapsed in the streets as they're treated by medics in hazmat suits in Wuhan, China.
People can be seen lying motionless on the ground in the city which has been placed on lockdown following the outbreak of a coronavirus outbreak.
Wuhan pneumonia is the name for a new coronavirus which has struck down 41 people since breaking out in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been dubbed 'zombieland'."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...reets-21347952

“Jesus wept”- must be true if its in the Daily Mirror

[Magpies1959]

The moment I saw footage from China of people in hazmat suits spraying the streets, and ambulances full of dead bodies, I smelt a rat. It was obviously propaganda, designed to scare the schit out of everyone, sadly most of the so called experts fell for it. I am not denying it killed a lot of people, but I think a large proportion of these were already very vulnerable people, and we ended up using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. We are now paying for it financially and also in knock on health issues. Very clever these Chinese.

[Elite_Pie]

Just give it a rest EP. I didn't say I inhabited the centre ground, some of my views are to the left and some are to the right. I suppose you would just prefer no balance in news reporting.

Lets get real here. You are espousing GB News as "balanced" reporting, when it's plainly a right wing propaganda machine. Presenters like Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lee Anderson are as far to the right as you can get before entering BNP and EDL territory. So where are the far left presenters they give airtime to?

Out of interest, what left wing views do you claim to support?

[magpie_mania]

Lets get real here. You are espousing GB News as "balanced" reporting, when it's plainly a right wing propaganda machine. Presenters like Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lee Anderson are as far to the right as you can get before entering BNP and EDL territory. So where are the far left presenters they give airtime to?

Out of interest, what left wing views do you claim to support?

My best left wing views include Arthur Mann and Adrian Thorpe.

[Elite_Pie]

My best left wing views include Arthur Mann and Adrian Thorpe.

Ian Scanlon deserves a mention.

[upthemaggies]

The moment I saw footage from China of people in hazmat suits spraying the streets, and ambulances full of dead bodies, I smelt a rat. It was obviously propaganda, designed to scare the schit out of everyone, sadly most of the so called experts fell for it. I am not denying it killed a lot of people, but I think a large proportion of these were already very vulnerable people, and we ended up using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. We are now paying for it financially and also in knock on health issues. Very clever these Chinese.

Hard to believe the rest of the world would have locked down if China had not set the example and not been shown to be having a degree of success with it. It would also make basic logical sense for China to assume that free societies would be greater impacted by the virus and lockdowns than they themselves would be. However, if the whistle blower's story is true then it may have been the case that it was a bio-warfare test similar to what the UK had done in the 1960s but this one turned out to be far less benign than they thought it would be.

The UK testing bio-weapons on the unaware public story is here.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Cold-War.html

[BanjoPie]

My best left wing views include Arthur Mann and Adrian Thorpe.

Surely Arthur Mann leaned to the right!

[magpie_mania]

Surely Arthur Mann leaned to the right!

I thought he was a left-winger?

Great character - afraid of flying so didn't play in Europe for Man City, then died after being crushed under a forklift.

[Mud Pie]

Which well-known Tory politicians have a criminal record regarding Covid?

my bad, thought Baroness Mone had been convicted but apparently 'public servants' of her stature just have to sit on the naughty step and think about what they've done.

[Mud Pie]

Rather than "Making it happen", think in terms of "allowing it to happen" with Plausibility denial.

sounds plausible-ish, maybe. So, some entity/entities had the power to stop a pandemic, but didn't because profit?