Iceni warrior

Bloody right, got to stay civilised no matter how troubling the times are. A table without a tablecloth is an affront to common decency. It's only a short step from there to drinking tea out of a mug like a savage.

No, Spanish flu had a death rate of 10-20%. An estimated 500 million cases with deaths of 50 -100 million.

Absolutely, there is an over consumption problem not an over population one.

We're going to attract the attention of the thread control Mountie at this rate.

Yeah, yeah, no such thing as society. Heard it all before from the milk snatcher

Where would we all be without your voice of reason?

Crowded ice hockey matches will be one of the first victims. International rugby has already been affected.

Sounds like you need a stronger government not a weaker one.

The government can do things to slow the spread. Ban incoming flights from hotspots and quarantine those known to have travelled from those areas for example. They can also improve healthcare resources so that people infected have a better chance of survival and launch information campaigns so that people know what best practise is in cases of highly contagious diseases. They can step in to help with the distribution of resources and they can reduce looting and the destruction of property when panic sets in. None of these things are going to be acheived by individuals.

The alternative to taking measures is to do nothing and let the virus infect much larger numbers. In that scenario everyone is worse off.

Really? You think it is better to not try to contain the spread of a virus? You need only compare the spread and death rates of AIDS in Africa compared to first world countries with their ''Nanny States'' to see how that pans out. The best way to combat infectious diseases like this is through education and isolation (ie quarantine) and these require a strong central government with the funds to carry it out. Rugged individualism isn't going to help you much when big, expensive, nationwide measures need to be taken.

Nonsense, all you need is adequate ventilation to make sure you don't suffer from condensation. It's not as if people don't have houseplants in their homes.

Nah, you just need a large wardrobe and a couple of grow lamps.

If I lived in such an enlightened country I would just grow my own.

So civilised in the Nanny State. I have to rely on trafficed Vietnamese growers or brave men smuggling hash from the nearest Arab nation.

Well, when you do, don't forget to post some to your poor criminalised cousins on the other side of the pond.

Might be a good time to buy Cadbury and Nestle shares.

Hey, maybe they knew this was coming and thats why they over produced on pot and now have warehouses full of it? Any day now rumours will start to spread that the only way to avoid this plague is to stay high as giraffe pussy.

What, exactly, are you basing this psychological evaluation on?

And round and round we go...

No, it's just that you like criticisms of Corbyn because you have a RW bias but can't take criticisms of Boris so you label them BDS. It's intellectually lazy.

...and of course , you think all criticisms of Trump are idiotic and label them TDS even when they are perfectly valid.

I mean, I have never once been accused of having Corbyn Derangement Syndrome no matter how many times I called him an unelectable '80s dinosaur but speak out about BoJo's lies and I have BDS every time.

Yet I get accused of being deranged if I dare to criticise the orange shit gibbon...

Absolutely, man created God not the other way around.