thesultanofsheight

There’s lots to clarify if they don’t want those sort of loonies posting crap all over the place about it. The amount of rubbish exchanged by idiots online would suggest that clear messaging from government regarding the circumstances of the death is really important. After all it is the first death they’ve had in about 6 months but it doesn’t seem even worthy of explanation which is leading to a lot of nutty claims about cover-ups especially over the official stats which said there had been no hospital admissions or hospital deaths with covid when many are now assuming there have been.

And still no announcement about the covid death. It’s a matter of public interest and you would think necessary to quell unnecessary speculation and rumours etc which seem to be rife. Still nothing. Plus the two more cases today: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=58969 its like they don’t want to confront the awkward reality now that they can’t just bullshit their way around why we still don’t believe in testing for returnees and other measures etc.

The capacity for the DOI to drop gold plated turds knows no bounds!

Manx Radio whatever date that was at lunchtime so probably the current affairs but before or after the Mannin Line.

Why have we paid out another two hundred grand to the manufacturer then?

It could get interesting. There was that nutter with a mullet who plowed his Dodge Challenger into the crowd in Charlottesville not that long ago. A lot of them are proper crazy rednecks.

I hope so. The man is a total buffoon who has proved that he is not in control of the country he purports to head. Now ramping Pfizer shares to any moron who will listen.

On the upside in the UK it seems that there is nobody in authority now as most people don’t give a shit and are just carrying on going about their lives taking sensible precautions (hand washing, distancing, masks) without buying in to the lockdown bullshit and fear. As many people have pointed out to me - these are restrictions not the lockdowns they are being sold as. Most places that can remain open are open, less people give a shit, most people would rather have a future and have an income rather than sit cowering in the basement bricking it about dying from covid. I’d guess Boris Johnson has about a week or so to try to salvage his (already poor) reputation.

Yeah but the worrying bit was that interview on the BBC this morning with some nut job with an AK47 hanging off his chest and a MAGA hat shouting about his right to bare arms and how all the polls were fake. There’s some super serious fucktards out there buying into Trumps view of things.

Why so spikey? It was a compliment. That was a really great character reference for DF. You must be used to doing that sort of thing to have done it so well.

That’s a really great character reference.

Blah, blah, blah ..

But then again this is an island that puts you in prison for buying a sandwich.

You can completely envisage the IOM making it compulsory given its zero risk approach to anything that doesn’t involve testing or key workers so far.

And just to add. Someone has tragically died. Still no announcement from government when it is kinda important so when will we be privileged enough to find out more do we think?

Boris Johnson now claimed to be angry too as he feels he’s been conned into lockdown by dodgy data.

Fucks sake, for a couple of kiddies slides. Mental.

I’d have money on him ending up a White House squatter at some stage. I really want to see which crack team they’re going to have to send into the White House to drag him out kicking and screaming. It’s going to be hilarious.

What’s AIDS got to do with it? I was suggesting they might check up on people not shag them.

But we’ve empowered private snoopers anyway. Surely people paid to keep tabs on things would be better than passing the baton to legions of nosey bastards to use emergency legislation to carry out vendettas on people with? Public or private snooping is about the same but at least the public snoopers wear a uniform so you know who they are! It’s the private snoopers you need to be concerned about as you won’t know who they are or what their motivation is!

I suppose that’s fair. But again back to my point on resourcing compliance rather than relying on public snitchers. Wouldn’t you have thought at some stage someone on the covid team would have realized that we already employ people to knock on the doors of about 80% of the Islands population regularly. Wouldn’t it make sense to give them a list of s/i homes anyway and when out on their rounds ask them to just have a look when they’re delivering letters to see if all seems to be in order? But no we separately pay people largely to chase up on people by phone! Little of it seems to be joined up.

It’s not them running the show or making or implementing any of these totalitarian policies though is it? The civil service has been run on fear and psychological bullying for decades.

That’s where we disagree they knew exactly what they were doing. And they’ve got the end results they wanted in some of the outrageously insular behaviours that are still being exhibited. I criticize the way the border policy has been implemented with some holes in it and some awful extra-draconian measures (like not allowing family and friends to visit like other islands have). Not the actual need for border restrictions. Surely it’s better to throw resource at getting this allegedly life and death situation right rather than tat around with some infrastructure projects that can wait (MER lines etc). Especially when those projects have actually brought in key workers some of whom have been the worst offenders?

I agree it’s probably the latter. But as I said it’s probably largely down to the fact that the only people policing this seem to be the public in most cases. I’m glad you agree that it’s distasteful too. But it seems to have been the deliberate tactic by government - again presumably in order to police this all on the cheap. Just create a culture of fear and empower a few nosey nut jobs who know they can dob people in it and put them in jail and it will police itself. Only it hasn’t. If everything is even half as serious as we are being told then absolutely hundreds of people should have been drafted in to get their arms round all of this but it never happened and all of a sudden fixing the MER and the prom jumped back to the top of governments agenda with some token jailings thrown in on top just to under line the culture of fear. But prison sentences per see have not made any of our front line covid defenses any more robust really have they? More 111 people and more testing probably would have though!

It seems very clear that there is no mitigation anyway. A breach is a breach no matter how it happened which is pretty much what you get in places like Chile or Saudi where the state has the right to lock you up for anything they can get you for because they’re the state and you have no rights.