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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice
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In this country, during the last really big epidemic, they painted a Red Cross on your door, and you weren't allowed out. It seemed to work, as half the population survived. We could do better now, as our understanding of contagion is better.
The advantage our forbears had was that the incubation period for the plague was only 4 days or so, compared to 15 for Ebola.
Can you imagine trying to tell people today that they aren't allowed out? They'd have the screaming ab-dabs about rights and call the papers ... *cue indignant pose outside house for the photographer*.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Can you imagine trying to tell people today that they aren't allowed out? They'd have the screaming ab-dabs about rights and call the papers ... *cue indignant pose outside house for the photographer*.
That's what emergency powers are for.
The press would be censored and the military deployed to keep order and ensure compliance.
The 'screaming ab-dabs' might be a tad less effective when staring down the barrel of a gun....;)“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
PasturesNew wrote: ».... although maybe it means they went down a notch or three.
Perhaps it went up a notch or two when the old occupants moved out;).Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »The 'screaming ab-dabs' might be a tad less effective when staring down the barrel of a gun....;)
I remember the prepping thread. I'd be the one inside the house shouting "no, I don't want to come out" while eating Dopester's dog and licking the morning condensation off the car windows to hydrate.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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vivatifosi wrote: »Perhaps it went up a notch or two when the old occupants moved out;).
I think it did
Just one house of DV now, which seems sorted too.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »I remember the prepping thread. I'd be the one inside the house shouting "no, I don't want to come out" while eating Dopester's dog and licking the morning condensation off the car windows to hydrate.
What they forget on prepping threads is other ferals trying to get in to get their stash/whatever .... and a lack of basic services like electricity, running water, phone, TV etc as the systems no longer work as the people who run/fix them aren't at work either.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »That's what emergency powers are for.
The press would be censored and the military deployed to keep order and ensure compliance.
The 'screaming ab-dabs' might be a tad less effective when staring down the barrel of a gun....;)
Most countries have got pretty draconian legislation tucked away for what they can do to you if you might spread something contagious and potentially fatal.
On a lighter note, there was a TV series in the 70s called Survivors which was remade very much better in the last decade about a flu that killed off the bulk of the British population and about the people that banded together to try to survive it. Supermarket supply depots became the new palaces.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Sorry, can't resist. Here it is again, my favourite ever thread...
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1377795Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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vivatifosi wrote: »Sorry, can't resist. Here it is again, my favourite ever thread...
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1377795
That thread was exceptionally funny....:D“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Dopester is lovely .... wish he'd come back... with a photo of his dog (if only to prove he didn't eat him yet).0
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