Why are you bothering? "sine24" (or whoever he/she is) clearly cannot be reasoned with (which is reminiscent), and represents the section of the community causing the uplift in R and will cause a massive uplift in R over the Christmas period, maybe on the assumption that Covid-19 is a minor disease and those who die as a result or suffer long-term health issues are the minority who were living on borrowed time anyway. Getting "information" from social media (for "information" read "unsubstantiated Trumpesque opinion") rather than properly moderated traditional channels doesn't help. (300,000 deaths in Trump's America ought to give you a clue, and now he's claiming credit for the vaccine!)
"Oh look, restrictions have brought R down, so now we can go back to normal" - utter nonsense, completely self-defeating, and representative of the poor quality of science education and communication we are subjected to these days. Restrictions that bring R down have to be maintained to keep R down, until such time as the source of infection is controlled (which, thank God, is just around the corner). Restrictions are a political decision, a difficult balance between controlling R and keeping essential services going. Those who volunteered and were elected for political power have a tough job to do, and the rest of us have an absolute duty to go along with it (including Cummings).
Everybody is entitled to an opinion. What is not excusable is repeating an opinion over and over again (unsubstantiated or not), and that is behaviour which ultimately gets people (rightly) banned around here.
Now, for the last time, let's get back to "Amusing Items" (the title of this thread) such as Scrat and Minions. Please would a mod do the difficult task of separating coronavirus rant into a dungeon thread.
