I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2. there was
a mad rush all the sweet shelves were stripped in hours. so the sweets
were put back on ration for a short time, then when they came off all
was well. It seems to me it is exactly the same with the Covid
restrictions, the psyche has not changed. It was foreseeable,

On 01/06/2020 08:26, Broadback wrote:
I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2. there was
a mad rush all the sweet shelves were stripped in hours. so the sweets
were put back on ration for a short time, then when they came off all
was well. It seems to me it is exactly the same with the Covid
restrictions, the psyche has not changed. It was foreseeable,
that is why my brother who was five years older than me was a skinny
mini and I was a porker with bad teeth starting to munch choco at two
years old when sweets came off ration in 1954 .... I blame my parents ...

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Broadback wrote:
I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2.

We found a sweetie shop in North Berwick (where we'd gone to the 'seaside')
which was able to serve us.



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Indeed I feel though it may be cynical to say it. One has in the end to
confront the virus, but in a way that not everyone gets it at the same
bloody time!

Brian

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"Broadback" wrote in message
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I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2. there was a
mad rush all the sweet shelves were stripped in hours. so the sweets were
put back on ration for a short time, then when they came off all was well.
It seems to me it is exactly the same with the Covid restrictions, the
psyche has not changed. It was foreseeable,

On 01/06/2020 09:13, charles wrote:
In article ,
Broadback wrote:
I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2.

We found a sweetie shop in North Berwick (where we'd gone to the 'seaside')
which was able to serve us.



were you just checking your eye sight?

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On 01/06/2020 09:13, charles wrote:
In article , Broadback
wrote:
I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2.

We found a sweetie shop in North Berwick (where we'd gone to the
'seaside') which was able to serve us.



were you just checking your eye sight?

Interesting idea, but this was in 1953. Mind you, an RAF medical 4 years
later showed I needed glasses.

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Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

Indeed I feel though it may be cynical to say it. One has in the end to
confront the virus,

Not necessarily. That wasn’t necessary with SARS

but in a way that not everyone gets it at the same bloody time!

Sweden proves that’s wrong too.

"Broadback" wrote in message
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I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2. there was a
mad rush all the sweet shelves were stripped in hours. so the sweets were
put back on ration for a short time, then when they came off all was well.
It seems to me it is exactly the same with the Covid restrictions, the
psyche has not changed. It was foreseeable,

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On 01/06/2020 08:26, Broadback wrote:
I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2. there was
a mad rush all the sweet shelves were stripped in hours. so the sweets
were put back on ration for a short time, then when they came off all
was well. It seems to me it is exactly the same with the Covid
restrictions, the psyche has not changed. It was foreseeable,

What, rationing out the remaining viral particles to 1 in 400 people ? :-)

On 01/06/2020 09:55, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

Indeed I feel though it may be cynical to say it. One has in the end to
confront the virus,

or get vaccinated, should one of the many trials prove successful.

but in a way that not everyone gets it at the same
bloody time!

Also with more experience and more research, more therapeutic options
are developed, more who do have life threatening reactions to it can be
treated.




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On 01/06/2020 08:26, Broadback wrote:
I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2. there was a
mad rush all the sweet shelves were stripped in hours. so the sweets were
put back on ration for a short time, then when they came off all was well.
It seems to me it is exactly the same with the Covid restrictions, the
psyche has not changed. It was foreseeable,
that is why my brother who was five years older than me was a skinny
mini and I was a porker with bad teeth starting to munch choco at two
years old when sweets came off ration in 1954 .... I blame my parents ...

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