Brace yourselves: Bobby Ball gone.

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By his own estimation, men over 70 have only a 1% risk of dying of COVID if they catch it.

And of course that’s only if they catch the virus. Factor in the probability of catching it in the first place and the chances of dying of covid must presumably shrink significantly further.

How on earth does this become “a very good chance of dying”?

I find myself wondering if Berni is Chris Witty - or perhaps some other socially dysfunctional member of Sage.

His post has all the hallmarks of a Sage presentation. First you grossly exaggerate the danger presented by Covid, then you make an emotional tie to the misrepresentation, all the while completely ignoring the impact of lockdown, as though it had no victims.

Sage do it because the thing they fear most is the possibility that we try a different approach to that which they recommend, and find that it works. And that they end up then being blamed for the devastation to our economy, for compromising our children's education and for the overall impact on our way of life. Worse yet, that outcome would prove that they lacked the humility to admit what they didn't really know, and that we paid a massive price for that conceit.

Lord knows why Berni does it.

[WES]

By his own estimation, men over 70 have only a 1% risk of dying of COVID if they catch it.

And of course that’s only if they catch the virus. Factor in the probability of catching it in the first place and the chances of dying of covid must presumably shrink significantly further.

How on earth does this become “a very good chance of dying”?

And of course, as I was trying to point out, by taking some very basic precautions which hardly make life not worth living, they can significantly reduce the odds even further.

Asking the vulnerable to accept these precautions, spending time, money and effort ensuring that the vulnerable are protected as much as possible (better PPE and more testing in care homes and hospitals, more support personnel for physical and mental well being etc) would massively reduce the mortality rate and along with better treatments we might find that we can begin leading a normal life sooner rather than later.

That or we could just keep shutting down our economy every few months and ignore what it's doing to the population generally, not to mention to our children's future.

[WES]

And of course, as I was trying to point out, by taking some very basic precautions which hardly make life not worth living, they can significantly reduce the odds even further.

Asking the vulnerable to accept these precautions, spending time, money and effort ensuring that the vulnerable are protected as much as possible (better PPE and more testing in care homes and hospitals, more support personnel for physical and mental well being etc) would massively reduce the mortality rate and along with better treatments we might find that we can begin leading a normal life sooner rather than later.

That or we could just keep shutting down our economy every few months and ignore what it's doing to the population generally, not to mention to our children's future.

And of course if this was suggested to that fat, blithering idiot in No. 10 he would say something insanely stupid along the lines of 'I refuse to accept that we should let the virus rip through our population'.

Despite the fact that no one has ever suggested we do exactly that. Boris and Sage want to see a nice simple world. You either nod your head dumbly at their selective and misleading statistics and never question their hyperbole or scare mongering, or you're someone that wants to 'let the virus rip'.

Cretins.

[Arsenal Alcoholic Review]

By his own estimation, men over 70 have only a 1% risk of dying of COVID if they catch it.

And of course that’s only if they catch the virus. Factor in the probability of catching it in the first place and the chances of dying of covid must presumably shrink significantly further.

How on earth does this become “a very good chance of dying”?

The vast majoirty who catch Covid have zero symptoms or problems. They just go about their normal life as if nothing happened. So obviously an enormous ammount of these people are not being recorded. So your chances of dying are ridiculously rare.

Tbh why anybody who isn't a fat cnut, 80 plus year old is giving this the time of day is beyond me.