Stop it. This is bigger than Brexit.

Stop it because it is incorrect or stop it because it is insensitive?

"Stop it because it's unimaginable that the UK government is intentionally trying to kill off it's old folks no matter how much money that may save the NHS, in no small part because that would be akin to a genocide for profit"

Have you heard about the Windrush scandal?

It's (probably) not about the NHS but more about "we kicked out so many illegal immigrants last year, aren't we great?" (not that these people are illegal immigrants, but hey, let's make burden of proof tests that are hard for them to pass), but, incredible how seemingly easy it is for the Home Office to be heartless to the point of killing people via red tape.

The burden of proof was hard to pass because the Windrush landing cards were destroyed due to a decision made under a Labour government.

Never blame anything on maliciousness that can easily be explained by stupidity.

You don't study governments much, huh

I uh, ... what

> "Stop it. This is bigger than Brexit."

Well, Brexit won't kill anybody (hopefully).

But on the other hand, a year from now, the pandemic will be largely forgotten. Brexit will still be going on.

Given the damage this pandemic has already dealt to the world economy, it's going to be remembered for a long time. It'll join black death and the Spanish flu. Brexit, in comparison, will likely end up as a footnote.

The Spanish Flu (H1N1) killed between 3-6% of the entire world's population. Unlike most other flu pandemics, a large portion of the victims were young and healthy adults. You really think Covid-19 is going to be that bad?

The Black Death (Bubonic Plague) lasted for decades, killed more than 1/4 of the world's population and set human civilisation back by a century or more. It took more than 200 years for Europe's population to recover to where it was before the pandemic. Many regions never recovered economically, or only recovered centuries later. You really think Covid-19 is going to be that bad?

Yes, I think it'll be as bad as the Spanish flu, just with different age mortality profile.

Good god, making the choice of killing people for saving on pension borders on Nazi-level eugenics.

It seems the UK bureaucracy, 2019, is very capable of that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal

Yes. We have eugenist advisors to senior government: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51535367

"Have" is a strange word to use to describe someone who resigned before they ever started.