Crew are clearly dividing into two opposing watches: Port watch: There's a terrible disease, and we Archived Message Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on May 10, 2020, 8:51 pm, in reply to "It is governments not the coronavirus which threaten our lives." all have to endure severe measures to defeat it! Starboard watch: There's a disease, rather like seasonal flu; it can cause a stinker of an illness, and like other flus it can kill unfortunate sufferers. But it's being cried up ludicrously, for reasons that are not clear, one possibility been an irrational stampede which has gone round the world. But whatever the reason, it really isn't as bad, overall, as its being portrayed. Will both watches please deposit their cutlasses at the armoury BEFORE engaging in discussion about this. And please: try to refrain from rushing to premature conclusions, embraced with - wholly unjustified - rabid certainty. Remember: we're just crew. We don't bloody KNOW! (How can you tell I was aboard a sail-training ship - the 'Prince Louis' out of Burghead, Scotland - when I was 16? I was in the Port watch then - on the left side. More on the Starboard watch on this vessel... ) http://www.theinvergordonarchive.org/picture/number1119.asp Message Thread: It is governments not the coronavirus which threaten our lives. - rippon May 10, 2020, 5:13 pm Crew are clearly dividing into two opposing watches: Port watch: There's a terrible disease, and we - Rhisiart Gwilym May 10, 2020, 8:51 pm Of course - Starboard-wing says: Gubmint is the real enemy... - Shyaku May 11, 2020, 2:06 am Think that gets to the ueart of it. - dan May 11, 2020, 6:52 am Re: Think that gets to the ueart of it. - Ken Waldron May 12, 2020, 1:11 am Not the view of this Starboard-watcher. Just THIS government that's the omnishambles problem in - Rhisiart Gwilym May 11, 2020, 9:14 am You misframe the debate. - dan May 11, 2020, 6:44 am We need to remember WHO started this, and cui bono.. - David Macilwain May 11, 2020, 2:30 pm   Searching