Coronavirus

[Oracle]

No apology needed.

For me it is worrying just how polarised such as Brexit and corbynism have been.
Friends are no longer friends. For me it is sad how erstwhile friends have blocked over a dispute on how best to run economies. For those old enough to remember the vitriol is Reminiscent of the miners strike. Some of those communities, even family members still won’t talk to each other now.

Some of the language of hate has worrying precedents.
“ Tory cockroaches “
“all Brexiteers are racist”
“ austerity murderers”
The rhetoric against jewish labour MPs.
It hasn’t stopped at words, Vigilante actions matching words on coronavirus, burnings of houses and paint stripper on cars.

History records that similar words were used in Rwanda of one faction by the other
“ cockroaches” was the mantra before one of the worst genocides in history, a word used before many civil wars. Even now those committing atrocities have no idea how they slipped into them. A slippery slope of the language of hate. Before too long hate got even worse “ a baby snake is still a snake” was used to take machetes to children.

It has its precedents here. The language of hate against “ scabs” in the miners strike descended from parcels of sh!t through letter boxes to full blown murder, pushing concrete blocks off motorway bridges onto cars containing “scabs”.

When mr McDonnell once called for the “ lynching” of Ester Mcvey, in my view he should have been on charges for incitement, and banned from ever sitting as MP. What would have happened if that spark turned into an unstoppable fire?

Tone it all down is my thought.
Comment on policy not people.
Stay friends.

Firstly I feel I should apologise to Oracle. I had a go at you on a Brexit thread. I've been reading a lot of your posts and you seem to be an intelligent man who knows what he's talking about. Sorry for being a dick.

Anyway, I thought I'd throw in my tuppence worth from a Skye perspective.
I'm a Mental health nurse. We've been working pretty much as per usual but with distancing/remote working. I'm also a BnB owner. Highland region has, so far been affected pretty lightly. There's no problems with PPE, nobody is being swamped. There are cases but it's all as expected and everyone is coping.
The rhetoric in the community though is appalling. I've been embarrassed and horrified by the actions of some pitch fork weilding idiots. Signs up telling tourists to keep away, cars with foreign plates being accosted, second home owners being villified. The level of hypocrisy is huge. So many locals have moved their grown up kids home from the cities to 'keep them safe'. When challenged they say its OK as they're 'local'. People posting online about how much they're enjoying Lockdown as there are no tourists about-just like the old days! No thought about the huge numbers of businesses struggling and going under ours included. No thoughts about the kids trapped at home or people with mental health problems deteriorating due to isolation.
Our local Care Home has just tested positive. 8 out of 13 staff positive plus several residents so far. The witch hunt has begun about 'who brought it here' it must be an outsider.