Loved Ones Remembered On Fifth Anniversary Of Start Of Covid

[naomi24]

//Emotional scenes played out across the UK on Sunday as the bereaved and their communities hosted hundreds of events to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the pandemic in a day of reflection.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c798l9gz4y1o

 

Is it just me who finds this distasteful?

[Old_Geezer]

It is more about officially organised encouragement to get together and commemorate a personal loss that is seeming inappropriate.  Folk might be expected to want to make their own personal decisions in private, instead of chosing to participate in a public display.

[douglas9401]

Some folk just love a parade and a good old wallow, that's all.

[ynnafymmi]

@09.29.No Untitled,a lot of those who prefer to forget Covid are those on the Left who disbelieve the Chinese government and their biological warfare unit in Wuhan who started this whole sheet-show.Pangolins?Bats?...eff off.

[gulliver1]

This thread is distasteful.

[naomi24]

If you're talking to me, untitled, no I don't - but there is no comparison.  That is in remembrance for those who fought evil and gave their lives for their country and our freedom - something entirely different from succumbing to disease.

[Untitled]

and people can still do that old geezer. how do these people choosing to comemorate publicly affect anyone who doesn't want to do it? 
 

it doesn't. this is just old people complaining about a bunch of others doing something that annoys them. it's no different from that "what modern trend do you hate" thread. 

[Untitled]

remembrance sunday is still a public display of emotion naomi... it's just one that you approve of whereas this one isn't

if you don't want to then nobody is forcing you

[naomi24]

untitled, no one said anyone is being forced either way.

[Khandro]

I agree with naomi 100% 

and all that red paint vandalises the embankment, what for? what are they demonstrating ?

Around 12,00 people die every week through an assortment of illnesses in England.

And Remembrance Day can not be equated with dying of a disease: it (in case you don't know) commemorates those who have laid down their lives for their country. 

[Untitled]

then what's the problem?

[Untitled]

Covid deaths on that scale were avoidable.

[naomi24]

untitled, I can't help you.  I've no idea what your problem is.

[Untitled]

what is your problem with this public comemoration if you are not being forced to participate in it?

[naomi24]

I've told you, untitled.  Do you intend going around the houses yet again?

[Untitled]

the only reason you have mentioned is that you find some public outpourings of emotion unpleasant... but not others.

i think you're just complaining.

[naomi24]

You think wrong, untitled.  I'm not complaining - I'm criticising.  

[gulliver1]

Untitled.. According to the way Naomi thinks if you were shot you are a Hero but if you died from covid it doesn't matter .

[newmodarmy]

So maybe we should also  march to commerorate the millions who've died from old age, cancer,suicide, road accidents, etc etc. I think naomi is drawing a distinction between showing gratitude for and remembering those who gave their lives to save ours.

[gulliver1]

I show  respect and sorrow to anyone who has passed away no matter who they are .

[newmodarmy]

Of course- we all do. That should go without saying.