Plonker 'I wish I'd stayed in Wuhan and missed the flight'
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-5...
This plonker who was evacuated at our expense with his Chinese girlfriend and mother. Put up in an old hospital with new furniture TV internet etc, food and round the clock medical expenses felt "duped" and ""brought here under false pretences". The peoples republic are so transparant aren't they.
He can't go back because he'd have to spend two weeks in quarantine over there and his mother has dementia, I'd happily pay a gofundme to send him back to his favourite communist country so he could be free. I'd love to have some Hong Kong citizens here instead of this idiot, who would appreciate some freedom when this is all over, I know we don't have much freedom at the moment, what an ungrateful idiot.
This plonker who was evacuated at our expense with his Chinese girlfriend and mother. Put up in an old hospital with new furniture TV internet etc, food and round the clock medical expenses felt "duped" and ""brought here under false pretences". The peoples republic are so transparant aren't they.
He can't go back because he'd have to spend two weeks in quarantine over there and his mother has dementia, I'd happily pay a gofundme to send him back to his favourite communist country so he could be free. I'd love to have some Hong Kong citizens here instead of this idiot, who would appreciate some freedom when this is all over, I know we don't have much freedom at the moment, what an ungrateful idiot.
I'd say you are confusing theoretical freedom with practical freedom to go about your day unhindered.
The UK recommended that British citizens leave China. The UK did not keep it's end of the bargain, by making any competent attempt to keep Covid-19 infections at low levels. Except for an approximate 3 week period at the start of the pandemic, China has been quite open about their restrictions and have made Sinovac available before other vaccines. Life in the UK is under severe restrictions. Live if China is relatively normal. I have business associates in China, in Wuhan and in Beijing who go out to dinner, visit friends, go to work, with minimal restrictions.
The UK recommended that British citizens leave China. The UK did not keep it's end of the bargain, by making any competent attempt to keep Covid-19 infections at low levels. Except for an approximate 3 week period at the start of the pandemic, China has been quite open about their restrictions and have made Sinovac available before other vaccines. Life in the UK is under severe restrictions. Live if China is relatively normal. I have business associates in China, in Wuhan and in Beijing who go out to dinner, visit friends, go to work, with minimal restrictions.
Torn on this one.
Life in the UK "appears" more restrictive at the moment than China.
But surely people are capable at looking at the big picture?
One might gain the right to meet friends, have a meal out, go to a gym perhaps, but what freedoms would you lose being subject to the PRC?
I've not really looked into how China has managed to contain the virus in Wuhan (and other places) as it's neither my job or hobby. But well done to them, and the Chinese population, for getting it done.
It must have come at one hell of a cost, and I doubt the West's attitudes, legal system or population could pay it.
Thinking back to February 2020 though, it was still unthinkable we'd be facing the 10 months we have done, and the idea this was going to be another isolated bird flu h5n1 type outbreak in Asia was still reasonable?
(Or how crap the UK would deal with shutting boarders, ppe, test and trace, and emptying infected patients into care homes)
This guy's reasons seem to be financial and practical rather than ideological though, so while he gets his minute in the news it doesn't really change things.
Ian
Life in the UK "appears" more restrictive at the moment than China.
But surely people are capable at looking at the big picture?
One might gain the right to meet friends, have a meal out, go to a gym perhaps, but what freedoms would you lose being subject to the PRC?
I've not really looked into how China has managed to contain the virus in Wuhan (and other places) as it's neither my job or hobby. But well done to them, and the Chinese population, for getting it done.
It must have come at one hell of a cost, and I doubt the West's attitudes, legal system or population could pay it.
Thinking back to February 2020 though, it was still unthinkable we'd be facing the 10 months we have done, and the idea this was going to be another isolated bird flu h5n1 type outbreak in Asia was still reasonable?
(Or how crap the UK would deal with shutting boarders, ppe, test and trace, and emptying infected patients into care homes)
This guy's reasons seem to be financial and practical rather than ideological though, so while he gets his minute in the news it doesn't really change things.
Ian
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