Last Respects

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A UK funeral service under Covid social distancing restrictions.

Earlier: Hi Five

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14 thoughts on “Last Respects

  1. Kim The Cardassian

    When covid is done and inquiries are being carried out into nations’ handling of the crisis this is one area where we failed the world over.

    1. bisted

      …one thing is for sure…this pandemic will be analysed in minute detail…some of the things we did will be shown to have been totally useless and futile…but most of us will be shown to have demonstrated amazing solidarity and tried to do the right thing…

    2. GiggidyGoo

      Covid, in its current format or a future format will never be done. Now that it has been proven what can be done by fear-mongering in a very short space of time, some pandemic or other will happen every 3 years or so. Bilderberg isn’t there for nothing folks.

      1. Fergalito

        I think it’s very interesting to see the word “fearmongering” being used as much as it is. I’m not sure it’s accurate in most cases. It seems to me to be the case that when anyone talks about the number of reported daily Covid cases or reports on established facts and available, verified data that this constitutes fearmongering. Likewise, to express a concern, caution or worry about potential outcomes also has been described as fearmongering. It has become a useless word, devoid of any real impact and a lot of the time a lazy label deployed from the big book of lazy labels to circumvent or avoid any sort of reasonable debate. What happened to allowing two opposing ideas occupy one’s mind at a given time? Or agreeing to disagree? When did the expression of a point of view become a struggle to assert one’s righteousness and a nurturer of ego?

        1. Kingfisher

          Yes. It’s horrible that people can’t hug at a funeral. But I personally know of a Dublin funeral that infected nine people (so far). We’re living in a horrible ironic version of “going to a wedding is the making of another”.

  2. Micko

    This really reminds me of the experiments that Stanley Milgram conducted in the 1960’s

    If you haven’t seen them or a reconstruction of them – the basic idea is:

    If a person in white coat / authoritarian position tells you do to something with enough conviction and social stigma, the vast majority of people will go along with it – no matter how abhorrent or inhumane it is.

    Nazi’s basically… it’s how we get nazis.

    1. ian-oh

      Wow, I did nazi that false equivalence coming at all.

      Can you elaborate furher on your thinking?

      Will my mask contain zyklon A or B? Asking for a friend hiding under the floorboards.

        1. ian-oh

          I’ll probably stay limping rather than safe or special.

          Doc reckons without adequate physiotherapy I will have long term issues walking. Nothing to be done about it, except limp and bear it.

          What a wonderful world we live in.

    2. Micko

      Well, that’s how they get into power alright.

      But, my point (and Mr Milgrams’) was that regular law abiding nice people can be coerced into doing terrible things.

      Hence the atrocities committed by ordinary German folks during ze war. It’s in us all ;-)

      1. E'Matty

        Indeed, that study showed how ordinary people will commit terrible acts when obediently and unquestioningly following orders from a seeming voice of authority. In that case, a man/woman in a white coat giving instructions to inflict electric shocks. The power and danger of blind obedience to voices of authority. It actually perfectly reflects our current environment. It also clearly shows that your Nazi reference above was perfectly apt.

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