I Love History

@alan20 Churchill was fully in support of the Common Market - he was an internationalist all the way.

@helensusanswift Inspiring the country to stand up to fascism was his finest achievement. I once visited a place where he regularly visited to paint, with a crate of booze in his car. Drink driving laws must have been lax. I'm not sure but I think it might have been in Crete.

@alan20 He was an egoistical, depressive, self centred immature man with a terrible grasp of military strategy and an over-inflated idea of his own intelligence - and a genius who held freedom in the palm of his hand.

@Elevatorpitches It took a lot of deaths before things got better for the ordinary people.

@helensusanswift Well there was a silver lining then.
What will ours be I wonder??

@Elevatorpitches @helensusanswiftHaving done a dissertation on pandemics when I got my History degree-a history teacher in school had the Spanish flu as a pet topic so it sparked my interest-I reckon isolating everyone,rather than just the sick,has been a huge mistake.Pandemics do kill millions but herd immunity saw the others off.
There is no herd immunity to Covid because we haven’t let it happen.
And the British governments haven’t a clue how to return what they’ve taken which includes everything I enjoy.
Look up 1918 to 1923 and compare what they did then to what they’ve done now.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales I've read that more died in the 1918 - 1923 flu epidemic than in the trenches, including my grandfather. I don't think they could have sat back and waited for herd immunity during covid. I feel sure that on balance the mass vaccination has saved lives.

@alan20 Around 50 million deaths worldwide in the flu epidemic of 1918 - the Spanish flu that started in the USA. There were about 10 million dead in the 1914-18 war.