All Covid-19 measures are permanent, don't be a boiling frog!

Why would anyone answer your question given the hundreds of questions and points you've ignored?

This question is just yet more deflection on your part because you've been backed into a corner again.

I used to have just one on ignore but had to add 3 more recently. Some of them are just boring - repeating the same lines over and over but few posters here become pretty aggressive. I do not mind occasional insult as that is what they usually go after when they lack arguments but if it become repetitive it is boring.

This thread is the best, pure comedy gold. No measures are permanent yet nobody knows when they will be abandoned.

But but they are not permanent.... (or the best one "how do the government benefit by extending a measure beyond the point it is required?"

Nobody has a clue what "required" means lol.

i would have thought the definition of "required" in this instance is pretty clear. when the pandemic is over they will no longer be required. how is that difficult to understand?

You are never going to convince a flat-earther that the world is round, likewise you will never convince an anti-vaxxer. All you can do is expose their arguments as faulty. Like many conspiracy theorists and people with extreme beliefs you are ignoring posters because you can't handle logical or factual debate. Looking at other forum threads, I notice they just thread-ban a lot of these conspiracy theorists and persistent anti-vaxxers.

I'll take a stab at that and venture a guess of all COVID measures gone* between zero and nine years after COVID being beaten, based on a pretty extreme historical precedent. That precedent is the UK during the Second World War during which Britain took measures that make COVID restrictions seem like mere nuisances, such as:

• Removal of children from their families
• Removal of road signs
• Mines and barbed wire on beaches
• Requirement to carry identity cards
• Requirement to carry a gas mask. Not a little cloth mask that fits easily in your pocket, but a big awkward thing requiring its own canvas bag for carrying (see the scene with Kenneth More and Susannah York in "The Battle of Britain").
• Enforced blackouts
• Conscription
• Food and petrol rationing
• The creation of local armed militia units

If there had been social media at the time, this would have been a conspiracy theorist's wet dream, and the measures listed above lasted at least six years (IIRC rationing didn't end fully until 1954 - hence my outlier figure of nine years but that's just hedging). Nevertheless, all these measures are now gone - even conscription which lingered until 1963. Here the measures haven't even been in place consistently for two years, COVID isn't even beaten yet, and people are up in arms already screaming about permanent measures. The lack of a sense of perspective on display is truly shocking.

* I believe (and hope) that some aspects of the new normal will stay e.g. voluntary mask wearing by those with respiratory illness, a change in attitude to workplace attendance when sick, and the wide retention of remote working. Not because they will be legislated, but because lessons will have been learned.

Anyone who said in August 1914 that the war would be long and terrible and NOT over by Christmas would have been a ‘mad conspiracy theorist’

Anyone who said in 1936 that Hitler will cause the deaths of millions and Europe will lie in ruins within a few years would have been a ‘mad conspiracy theorist’.

The uncomfortable truth is Hitler was the ‘good guy’ compared to Stalin, wasn’t he sorting out the communists in Spain?

The ‘conspiracy theorists’ would have been laughed at for saying Hitler was using the Spanish Civil War as a training ground for the coming world war. Of course the Stuka diving bombing tactics perfected in Spain were to used later at Dunkirk to deadly effect.

You are trying to equate people with unpopular opinions with people who claim conspiracies are happening. People who e.g. thought that World War 1 would be a long drawn out affair were not suggesting any conspiracy.

There's 10 years worth of user conspiracy theories on this forum, feel free to point out any that turned out to be correct.

Cool, I also like my war history and many also predicted they would be long conflicts, including famous generals.

What is the conspiracy aspect of this?