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(09-14-2021, 06:29 AM)Mav date Wrote:I’m sure when a few businesses get closed down, the message will get around. It's a perspective problem, there will be some businesses that profit from it as well and for many that lure is no different than a Tattersalls jackpot or The Daily Quaddie!
Gambling addiction is real, and it doesn't just apply to betting it applies to any risk, and the different risks taken are just other manifestations of the same fundamental behaviour!
It's why when you debate this issue on here with certain individuals you get the feeling they suffer from punters lament!
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By the way, how often in the last few years have you been in a pub or restaurant when someone has been happily puffing away on a cigarette inside? The rarity of such incidents isn’t just due to mindless enforcement of the law. Fact is non-smokers had no great desire to be breathing in a cloud of smoke just to humour a few people who felt they had the right to inflict their habit on others. Owners of restaurants realised they’d lose business if they didn’t enforce the law.
If there is a vaccine passport and it’s obvious the owners of a restaurant blow off that scheme, rest assured they’ll lose customers who don’t want to be seated in a room with the unvaccinated. There was a restaurant around where I live which closed down when they opened up for anti-lockdown protesters in defiance of restrictions. Though there were people who supported the actions of the owners, there were many who made it clear that they would never return to the restaurant. The owners bowed to the inevitable and announced they were closing for good.
Don’t underestimate how much businesses have to lose if the vaccinated believe their safety isn’t of great concern to the owners.
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(09-14-2021, 06:45 AM)Mav link Wrote:By the way, how often in the last few years have you been in a pub or restaurant when someone has been happily puffing away on a cigarette inside? The rarity of such incidents isn’t just due to mindless enforcement of the law. Fact is non-smokers had no great desire to be breathing in a cloud of smoke just to humour a few people who felt they had the right to inflict their habit on others. Owners of restaurants realised they’d lose business if they didn’t enforce the law.
If there is a vaccine passport and it’s obvious the owners of a restaurant blow off that scheme, rest assured they’ll lose customers who don’t want to be seated in a room with the unvaccinated. There was a restaurant around where I live which closed down when they opened up for anti-lockdown protesters in defiance of restrictions. Though there were people who supported the actions of the owners, there were many who made it clear that they would never return to the restaurant. The owners bowed to the inevitable and announced they were closing for good.
Don’t underestimate how much businesses have to lose if the vaccinated believe their safety isn’t of great concern to the owners.
As usual you have it ass about.
The tide is turning.
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(09-14-2021, 06:27 AM)LP link Wrote:Read these figures today, not sure if that relates to the nurse I heard earlier.Youth don't get it!
There is no need for a tautology to explain that phrase. :o
Staggers me that a seriously bright chap like you focuses on 'case' numbers...
Perhaps I got it wrong....
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(09-14-2021, 12:37 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:As usual you have it ass about.
The tide is turning. Great news that the vaccination rates are up. We can all celebrate. 8)
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(09-14-2021, 12:38 PM)flyboy77 date Wrote:Staggers me that a seriously bright chap like you focuses on 'case' numbers...
Perhaps I got it wrong.... Yes, well ignoring the usual "Ad Hominem, go the man" approach.
The counts might not be relevant, but the changing age profile / distribution certainly is! 
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Typically our road map out always had a degree of cloudiness about it. Whilst many believe the key to getting freedoms back lies in vaccination levels ‘I can’t recall’ Dan threw in a new term today which is typical in his handling of this.
He added in lockdowns will not only be determined by vaccination rates but also but hospital admissions. Of course he would never lock himself into disclosing a figure we can’t exceed or some type of clear number. He is too smart for that transparency. It makes sense too but he never said that when he was dangling the carrot of freedom to those who took the vaccination did he. Of course he didn’t.
Knew this was coming and that he would find a way to continue locking up the state (but also keep construction going of course!) he just needed to introduce something to give him an out and he has it now and who can argue with it.
‘I can’t recall’ Dan is a the absolute master of having a way to change the goal posts without changing the goal posts.
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Goal posts don’t exist. Pandemics don’t equal footy games.
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(09-15-2021, 03:29 AM)Mav link Wrote:Goal posts don’t exist. Pandemics don’t equal footy games.
Oh is that the reason. I also hear this pandemic has a wide range of symptoms even to those who didn’t contract it.
Amnesia being a common one.
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(09-15-2021, 03:22 AM)shawny link Wrote:‘I can’t recall’ Dan is a the absolute master of having a way to change the goal posts without changing the goal posts.
He is a deceitful lying bast@rd. They're the "nice" things I can say about him.
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