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Should Captain Tom Moore have gone on holiday abroad?
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Why not?
100+ years old....not going to be here for much longer
Family will have had a lovely time....memories to cherish.
If it's what he wanted then absolutely yes.
At his age and with failing health the are 100 things you could die of at any moment.
I believe he had been back some time so virus was not holiday related.
More likely somebody from Mail/Express/Telegraph wanting another photo session to sell their rags.....although TBF they're not blaming Jeremy Corbyn......yet.
Some tabloid or media leech
Boris is quids in
The Tory party are already weaponising Tom's death to take advantage.Posted 2 months ago # -
Wot Gero said - we all face death, why not do it well?
Seems improbable he might have had a further 50 years
There's perhaps a debate to be had about wealthy people buggering off abroad, and there's definitely one to be had about an island nation not being able to organise itself with quarantine in the middle of a fecking pandemic . . .
Posted 2 months ago # -
Well, he returned from Barbados on 6 Jan, and had a positive Covid test result on 22 Jan
BA might not have done him such a big favour after all. Seems plausible that he got Covid at the airport or from his co-travelling family
And I've now got to clean my Internet History from DM & Express pages. Anyone got any sanitiser?
Fly-drive holidays to be renamed fly-die holidays
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I did wonder whether he had some news that meant time was limited, in which case, why not? When he was admitted with pneumonia there were comments like 'they are taking good care of him' rather than' get well soon'.
Was a shame that Covid was implicated, felt like the bastard virus getting to win in the end; and I know he was 100years old and its daft but his passing really hit me.
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... but his passing really hit me.
I think it's because his story was one of the few happy, feel good stories in among a barrage of shit. And it didn't get a happy ending.
Here's a load of dickheads flouting lockdown rules and getting away with it scot free. And here's a seemingly genuinely lovely 100 year old man, who raised tens of millions of pounds, then had a nice holiday, caught the fucking virus and died.
Posted 2 months ago # -
Aparently they went December 11th so before the current lockdown and where they lived wasn't in Tier 3 so no travel restrictions.
He tested negative on return so sounds like either picked up from family/carer on his return or in hospital.
While not necessarily wise to travel I would say as above he was 100 so why not let him.
I'm no medical expert but I'm sure recirculated aeroplane air would up the risk of respiratory problems/pneumonia so essentially the holiday finished him off.Posted 2 months ago # -
As an aside:
I'm sure recirculated aeroplane air would up the risk of respiratory problems/pneumonia
Based on a small amount of technical knowledge in this field, and knowledge of illnesses suffered by people I know, I suspect the risk illness/death from this source is, statistically, rather greater than the risk of death as the victim of an aircraft crash.
Posted 2 months ago # -
Could easily then have got it on holiday, or since, perhaps while in hospital. I don’t understand the framing of the argument. There’s a lot about him risking his own health (his choice) and media trolls bullying the family for doing something perfectly legal, but surely everything else pales into significance in the face of unnecessary foreign travel during a pandemic?
That goes mostly for the irresponsible government who let it happen, but once they’ve eschewed responsibility by making something completely stupid legal, then it falls to the opportunist airline delivery system, and as they’re obviously not acting responsibly, then it falls to their bio-weaponised payload of passengers, whoever they are - but mostly the Government.
There must be an infinite number of nice things they could do for a likeable hero who’s captured the public imagination during a pandemic that aren’t unnecessary foreign travel during the same pandemic. What’s wrong with people?
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There must be an infinite number of nice things they could do for a likeable hero who’s captured the public imagination during a pandemic that aren’t unnecessary foreign travel during the same pandemic.
There may indeed be. But perhaps Sir Tom's response to such suggestions was the equivalent of that of King George V with regard to the noble town of Bognor Regis.
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