Re: Interesting thoughts on post Brexit air industry.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:30 pm
Jeblue,
Thank you for your reply. I think we are on the same page here. I fully agree with your points 1 and 2. Medically speaking it will all be over soon, in fact even without vaccines the number of cases is already falling. The only problem is, will Governments really want to set us free again ?
On point 3, my meaning was that we need to allow the vaccines some more time to prove that they work effectively, I was not questioning their effectiveness per se, They are experimental vaccines released by the authorities for Emergency use, - we are still in the data collecting phase and we will know more once we get some numbers to analyse. From what I have been reading Viruses get less lethal as they mutate so that should also prove to be positive as we move forward. As far as death rate goes, NHS figures show that the Death rate in Scotland over the past 12 months was actually only about 13 % higher than it has been over the past 5 years. So Scottish undertakers are having a good year ( business up by 13% ), but they will not be pre-ordering their Ferrarri's quite yet.
Funny that nobody died of Flu this year.
Point 4. I was reading an article over on the Guardian, titled "Lockdown necessary every 2 years to prevent Climate Change !" That was what prompted my comment.
I am far from advocating this stuff. But preventing "Climate Change" is very fashionable these days, and burning fossil fuels is seen as making out with the Devil himself. The "Save the Planet" mob are very vocal and it is heresay to disagree with them. Greta Thunberg would be quite happy to see 80% of the world's population starve to death, and for the rest of us to live in caves, just to prevent a 1degC increase in planetary temperatures.
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Thank you for your reply. I think we are on the same page here. I fully agree with your points 1 and 2. Medically speaking it will all be over soon, in fact even without vaccines the number of cases is already falling. The only problem is, will Governments really want to set us free again ?
On point 3, my meaning was that we need to allow the vaccines some more time to prove that they work effectively, I was not questioning their effectiveness per se, They are experimental vaccines released by the authorities for Emergency use, - we are still in the data collecting phase and we will know more once we get some numbers to analyse. From what I have been reading Viruses get less lethal as they mutate so that should also prove to be positive as we move forward. As far as death rate goes, NHS figures show that the Death rate in Scotland over the past 12 months was actually only about 13 % higher than it has been over the past 5 years. So Scottish undertakers are having a good year ( business up by 13% ), but they will not be pre-ordering their Ferrarri's quite yet.
Funny that nobody died of Flu this year.
Point 4. I was reading an article over on the Guardian, titled "Lockdown necessary every 2 years to prevent Climate Change !" That was what prompted my comment.
I am far from advocating this stuff. But preventing "Climate Change" is very fashionable these days, and burning fossil fuels is seen as making out with the Devil himself. The "Save the Planet" mob are very vocal and it is heresay to disagree with them. Greta Thunberg would be quite happy to see 80% of the world's population starve to death, and for the rest of us to live in caves, just to prevent a 1degC increase in planetary temperatures.
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