Posted: Apr 22, 2021 1:05 pm
Humphris wrote:There are a lot of things which are simple facts which need to be discussed, for example - as I put to him on the street - the average age of death with covid is 82 years and 3 months, the average age of death is 81 years, that means, basically, that old people die; when we get old, we die. That's fundamentally what's been happening. The last time as a proportion this many people died in this country was 2008, now, and every preceding year more people had died going back to the 2nd world war. So I don't remember us doing this, doing all this stuff in 2008.
People live longer with covid? Oh and everyone dies, so let's not worry about pandemics - just so long as me pub stays open!
Humphris wrote:Why is he (Starmer) not talking about Florida, why is he not talking about Texas, Sweden, Tanzania, Belarus - all places in the world where they simply haven't done this and lots of people haven't died. He should be in Parliament asking these questions on behalf of us.
And on and on - all completely misinformed nonsense. Every state/country above has posed lockdown and restrictions as a way of addressing Covid except for Tanzania who has a complete fucking fruitbat as a President who declared Tanzania free of covid thanks to the prayers of the citizens. And every state/country above has experienced tens of thousands of cases and thousands of deaths - including Tanzania despite their government refusing to publish figures specifying the extent of the virus' impact.
So clearly Humphris is not just badly informed, but willfully misinformed, and seems to think it's Labour's job to address these fictional complaints. He says so in no uncertain terms in his own words.
His issue is that Labour is not opposed to covid restrictions, nothing else.