These People are Beyond Parody.

November 29, 2020 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, Health and Fitness, misanthropy, Political, sophistry 7

Yup, we have Sage “scientists” telling us how to shop now…

One of the Government’s scientific advisers today told Christmas shoppers they should try to spend less than 15 minutes in every shop they visit to minimise their chances of catching coronavirus.

If you had thought by now we had reached peak infantilisation, these cretins seem to find another seam to mine.

Professor Lucy Yardley, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), said ‘Covid-secure’ sites are ‘not 100 per cent risk free’ and people should keep their time indoors to a minimum.

This utterly stupid statement sums up the modern world. There is no such thing as 100% risk free. There never was and there never will be. People are born, they live and they die and during that time, we are surrounded by risks that we have to manage, yet we now live in a world where people are not allowed to die and life must be 100% risk free. That is how fragile modern man has become.

She argued that if people wear masks and socially distance then ‘nipping out for a bit of Christmas shopping is not one of the most dangerous things that you can do’.

Well, no, that would probably be crossing the road…

But she pointed to the 15 minute threshold used in the contact tracing process and said ‘most of us’ would not need longer than that in a shop and ‘the less time that you spend in there the safer you are’.

That fifteen minutes being made up, plucked out of thin air and written down on a fag packet for all the scientific basis it has.

Tell you what… I’ll carry on living my life as much as possible as I did before this insanity started. I will do the best I can to ignore SAGE and the government and the press because none of them is remotely on the right side of sanity.

My only problem, unfortunately, is that I am beholden to the DVSA when it comes to work. Aside from that, though, Nothing these idiots say should be taken seriously.

It’s worth bearing in mind that Yardley’s background is psychology, not epidemiology or even communicable pathogens, so we can take her advice with the proverbial…

7 Comments

  1. Do these people even live on the same planet as the rest of us? Most of our Xmas came from Amazon this year. The rest I have picked up from Asda during my regular weekly shop. In any case, the chances of contracting a disease while shopping is minimal and the chances of dying from it even more remote.

    It would be nice to think that this crisis has brought the incompetence of government and their experts into sharp focus for the entire population to see. Unfortunately there are non so blind…

  2. That is how fragile modern man has become.
    Disagree.

    That is how fragile these people think modern man has become.
    Looking around, watching people at work and in general, the tolerance for risk is the same.
    It has, however, dropped among the managerial class. So many risk assessments…
    Just means we do the riskier stuff on night shift.

    Came across an interesting idea many moons ago. Called Risk Homeostasis.
    Basically, the is a certain amount of risk that every individual tolerates, and also a certain amount they need. Make things safer, and people behave in riskier ways to return to their desired band. Can be seen in the wild – introduce air bags and people drive faster, introduce fall restraint systems and people go closer to the edge.

    So all they’re doing is fighting human nature. And that always works so well…

    • Yup, I’ve come across that theory before. Its why I’m tolerant of the risks associated with motorcycling. It’s probably why without exception my riding students are derisive of the government’s rules regarding covid.

    • “Just means we do the riskier stuff on night shift.”

      Yes, always liked night-shift and weekend working; no managlement, just get things done in a satisfying waty.

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