I am old enough to remember sweets coming off ration post WW2. there was a mad rush all the sweet shelves were stripped in hours. so the sweets were put back on ration for a short time, then when they came off all was well. It seems to me it is exactly the same with the Covid restrictions, the psyche has not changed. It was foreseeable,
Nothing changes
Jun 01, 2020
Last reply: 6 years ago
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that is why my brother who was five years older than me was a skinny mini and I was a porker with bad teeth starting to munch choco at two years old when sweets came off ration in 1954 .... I blame my parents ...
We found a sweetie shop in North Berwick (where we'd gone to the 'seaside') which was able to serve us.
>Indeed I feel though it may be cynical to say it. One has in the end to confront the virus, but in a way that not everyone gets it at the same bloody time!
Brian
were you just checking your eye sight?
Interesting idea, but this was in 1953. Mind you, an RAF medical 4 years later showed I needed glasses.
What, rationing out the remaining viral particles to 1 in 400 people ? :-)
or get vaccinated, should one of the many trials prove successful.
Also with more experience and more research, more therapeutic options are developed, more who do have life threatening reactions to it can be treated.
that is why my brother who was five years older than me was a skinny mini and I was a porker with bad teeth starting to munch choco at two years old when sweets came off ration in 1954 .... I blame my parents ...
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Awww they were just spoiling your:))
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