I used and highlighted the word FACT when others used opinions as facts ehe they are not I.e. Omicron is just a cold (weird that there's thousands in hospital with "Just a cold"icon_wink.gif.
Don't make out that I've used the word FACT to support my own opinions on this subject, I've used it to point out were people have expressed opinions as.though they are facts when they aren't and they are wrong.

As for 6oz gloves or bare knuckles, not 100% sure what toy mean but I guess it's something to do with maybe me using the word rant when you went in about MSM?
If that's the case then I apologise, if I'm honest I attribute people who use the term MSM to the crackpot going down rabbit hole's, trumpism, qanon, anti vaxxers (the ones going round screaming about micro chips etc, not the ones who have a medical condition etc) crew.

In the bottom half of your post (and in other posts) tou have extended the conversation to what do you think about x, or what do I think about y, and other subjects and then say vaccines and masks, is that all I've got.
No it's not all I've got, but thats what I had responded to, people talking rubbish about not wearing masks and not having the vaccine.

Of course I have opinions on lots of other subjects, and as soon as anyone responds to that there'll be others saying "ah but what about this".

I'm trying to keep it simple in the terms of the original statements I responded to

Wear a mask of and where you can of requested
Have the vaccine if you are.medically able to, if not then fair enough but don't preach to others who do with mis information (not accusing you of that, it was others).

Stand by for the parents of unvaccinated teenagers howling about their kids' mental health later this month when they get sent home to isolate.

Won’t let me use emoji so thumbs up.

As I said we agree on virtually all points I just don’t and won’t accept that there are no other alternatives than the same tired and in some cases unenforceable approaches by the government/sage.

The lack of any decent investigative journalist anywhere on any platform is shocking. I understand the ofcom restrictions to a degree ties the hands of the media but the lack of challenge back I find quite startling. Oh for a John Pilger to wipe the floor with the establishment and their lackies. Journalists are now part of the establishment. I honestly can’t think of one decent investigative journalist.

The burying of the heads about the inflexibility of the nhs makes me despair. They should be planning now for 2022/23 winter.

STOP USING CAPS!

We kind of half agree with each other, just not quite there. I think I’ve said all I’d want to say and we’d start going in circles.

I haven’t looked up mask effectiveness but I will do, I’m genuinely interested. It wasn’t a challenge to anyone or a debate point. It’s more the ‘normal’ masks you’d see rather than the FFP3 type masks you’d ordinarily see on a building site.

The bbc was my go to for current affairs every time .
R4 in the morning going work, Newsnight 4 nights a week and Question Time every Thursday.
Cracking and informative. Yikes if there was a good panel on question time I would tape it.

I don’t watch any of those programmes anymore. Haven’t done for years.
Stale and not very informative. Poor journalism particularly Newsnight.

I still do the 10 o’clock news with the bbc but find the format too restrictive and if I’m honest 30 minutes for national and international news just isn’t long enough on many occasions.

I bought and read The Guardian for 35 years. For me the best English Newspaper by a country mile.
Bought the Mirror for Saturday racing and The Daily Express when I wanted a laugh.
If there was no decent sport on a Sunday then I’d happily devour The Sunday Times for hours at a time.
I never buy a newspaper anymore unless it’s The Racing Post.
You couldn’t pay me enough money to read The Guardian these days. From The Jewel in the Crown to a rag.
I get my news updates via The bbc on my phone. It’s short and concise and keeps me up to date for little effort.

In short I struggle to the point now where I don’t really consider myself a person overly interested in current affairs anymore. Maybe it’s an age thing.

What the sh*te are you on about? I was being sarcastic.

Of course they work. I’ve had my 3. But then again, I’m not a selfish cretin who loves to gain ‘look at me’ points on Bookface.

Anyway, why we're having a moan. I got e-mailed to register for track and trace as I I had been identified as having been in contact with someone who had tested positive for covid, no name(s) provided but I know it was my son who tested positive on New Years Eve. He's not a happy bunny!

Dad can you bring my guitar up to my room along with my play station and my firestick?

The moan, I've already registered on the NHS app, so every bit of information they need for the track and trace , NHS number, number of vaccines, types of vaccine, dates etc are available to them
Why are they are they not interactive?

Why in this day and age do we not have a National Identity card/record linked to our national insurance number/ NHS number/ passport number etc?

Ignore the media and check out what the experts are saying. You could try: Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University; Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University; Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School; Professor Carl Heneghan at Oxford University for starters.

I'd go along with the experts. Anything else is just opinion not fact.

My missus had a similar problem... messages telling her to book a booster when she'd already had one weeks before and her records not being updated. A call to 119, where you actually talk to a helpful human being, sorted it.