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Originally Posted by 10023
I feel much better being here after 3 months of winter lockdown in London where I was becoming homicidal (let alone suicidal). And Florida is doing significantly better than England in terms of Covid deaths. Lockdowns don’t even work and the UK’s real problem is its crappy public health system and substandard nursing homes.
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The failures within the UK have little to do with the NHS or retirement homes, but piss poor decision making (the failure to close borders, sending infected hospital patients back into retirement homes, bodged track & trace, delayed and lax implementation of lockdowns, mask usage, etc…) and legacy issues such as unhealthy lifestyles.
Covid-19 doesn’t have legs, it needs people to proliferate. Flying across the Atlantic to socialise with strangers is not just irresponsible, it is flat out stupid. Florida has more sun and to-date it has a slightly lower death rate than the UK when accounting for population. However, the number of cases is not dropping anywhere near as fast as in the UK and the death rate in Florida has plateaued since mid-Jan. I suspect the divergence in trends could be partially explained by the differences in lockdowns.
If you’re lacking the mental strength to endure lockdown, perhaps you ought to be focused more on improving your fragile mental resilience rather than your quads or biceps.