When did you suddenly wake up to the fact that you live, and always have lived, in a police state? Archived Message Posted by Der on April 26, 2020, 11:18 am, in reply to "You stay at least 2m away from others" The lockdown is a good idea. It stops spread. It seems rather obvious. It needs to be more stringently imposed. More support needs to be given to disadvantaged people. I'd imagine some people are in a really bad way. But that's not an argument for lifting the lockdown. It's an argument for providing more support. So far they've been mainly supporting the bosses. If you were a member of an ethnic community or an anarchist or activist who actually put down their pen or book and took to the street and who in the eyes of the police is always up to no good you would have encountered the heavy hand of the police many times. It's only now with these trivial restrictions that impinge upon the freedoms of the middle classes that people suddenly start worrying about it becoming a police state. Many people already know it is and always was a police state. Anyway I said all this before and there seems little point in saying it again. Here's a link: https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1585719171.html And of course opening BnQ is a damn fool idea. Seems rather obvious. Message Thread: Lockdown confusion - Mick Travis April 26, 2020, 10:39 am If everybody goes to wide open spaces how can anybody practice social distancing? nm - Der April 26, 2020, 10:43 am You stay at least 2m away from others - Mick Travis April 26, 2020, 10:49 am When did you suddenly wake up to the fact that you live, and always have lived, in a police state? - Der April 26, 2020, 11:18 am 1981....nm - Keith-264 April 26, 2020, 11:59 am Yes, the more stringent lockdowns are doing well in Belgium and France, no? - Willem April 26, 2020, 2:06 pm Let them out. nm - Der April 26, 2020, 5:25 pm ???nm - Willem April 26, 2020, 6:26 pm The Rainmakers -Let My People Go Go - Keith-264 April 26, 2020, 10:59 pm Yet you can go to B & Q! - nm - psingh April 26, 2020, 11:23 am Well how's this - walter April 26, 2020, 11:33 am Re: Well how's this - Sinister Burt April 26, 2020, 1:04 pm Re: Lockdown confusion - Willem April 26, 2020, 2:01 pm   Searching