• Polar
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    222 years ago

    Didn’t realize only old people could have organ transplants, cancer, autoimmune disease, or just simply weaker immune systems.

    Good thing it’s only old people.

    • @ashok36@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      I had a friend die from covid at 38. Another guy down the road died in his early 30s. They were both fat but probably should have had another 20 years at least.

  • m-p{3}
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    112 years ago

    Cancer is natural, should we stop treating that too?

  • @doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    462 years ago

    Does he not realize that he’s pretty much in that group now? And a massive chunk of his voters already are? Is he saying he thinks mother nature has it out for him?

    • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      152 years ago

      They had already voted for him. At that point, they’ve fulfilled their use, and if anything he’d probably be quite happy to off a few of them.

      He was never a party man. His entire cabinet would happily see the Conservative party burn once they’ve got their money and power out of the public.

        • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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          52 years ago

          They should be utterly decimated…but I lost my faith in the UK voting public a long time ago. I have a few friends in Tory strongholds like Surrey and Somerset, and even now they’re fully against the potential for a Labour government.

          IMO the best thing that could happen to traditional conservatism is for the party to be annihilated at the next GE. Get the US-style identity politics and populism shite out, see it for the damage it caused the country, and give a populist Labour government some competition under a leader that isn’t a fucking nutjob.

  • @000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    262 years ago

    Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.

  • SeaJ
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    512 years ago

    He’s almost 60. He is not exactly a spring chicken.

    • @tankplanker@lemmy.world
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      He was also significantly over weight during this period with little exercise and, in a high stress job (not that it stopped him from his afternoon naps).

      He also caught COVID quite early on (Late March), which was no surprise as he liked to attend parties when all this was going on, and was hospitalised for one on one care early for preventative care including oxygen back when oxygen was being restricted for preventative care.

      I am not suggesting the PM shouldn’t have had the best care available, more that hes proven to lack empathy of anything he hasn’t experienced himself, so is highly unlikely to understand just how overloaded the NHS was at this point and that his experience was anything other than privileged.

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    Oh BoJo, you scamp! You sad parody of a human being! What will he say next?

    • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      We aren’t due for anything. This is the gamblers fallacy. No one is sitting there and keeping track ready to swoop in and decimate the population.

      • ares35
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        -122 years ago

        yup. we’re overdue for an epic world war to cull the numbers a bit.

        • AggressivelyPassive
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          112 years ago

          That’s exactly not my point. Population will naturally peak within the next decades and then probably settle around 10 billion. That’s just 20% more than the current numbers.

          None of the scarcities we’re having right now are “real”. As long as 60% of agricultural land in industrialized countries is used to produce animal fodder, there’s enough food for everyone.

          • @Kill_John_Lennon@lemmy.world
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            22 years ago

            Just because it’s going to plateau and decrease, doesn’t necessarily mean that we aren’t already above where we should ideally be. Being potentially able to feed everyone is not the only criteria. We are overconsuming and this is in proportion to the world population. Even though it’s not evenly spread and everyone doesn’t consume the same, at the end of the day the least people there are the least we consume.

            • AggressivelyPassive
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              12 years ago

              We don’t “consume” that much. Actually, the only thing we actually consume is uranium, everything else is just transformed and could be recycled. Sure, there are problems, but you’re basically advocating for auto-holocaust.

              • @Kill_John_Lennon@lemmy.world
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                12 years ago

                We could be recycling everything but we’re not, and we’re not going to anytime soon, this would be far more complex than feeding everyone. I’m not advocating for anything, please don’t try to put words in my mouth. We’d have less trouble if there happened to be less of us, that’s it. I never said we should forcibly reduce our population, that’s ridiculous. I’m just tired of seeing this same senseless argument that everything is fine with the population because we could potentially feed everyone.

              • @_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz
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                22 years ago

                Actually, the only thing we actually consume is uranium

                Don’t forget helium! Once that shit’s pumped from the earth’s crust and released into the atmosphere, there’s practically no getting it back!