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That and switching from sugar in my teas and coffees, and getting diet when I occasionally drink pop.
I'm lucky enough that my walk commute to work is enough exercise for me.
[1] https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2867 [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57072922
He wasn't widely popular outside the parliamentarians, who were the ones in power. The "godly", who made up the majority of the Roundheads were reviled by a substantial portion of the British. Cromwell held the Commonwealth together, that's for sure, but the cohesion amongst the Roundheads dried up once he died.
Source: The English and their History by Robert Tombs
I'm in my twenties and fit, and going by the vast majority of cases that means I'll have very mild symptoms. That doesn't prevent me being considerate how badly it affects others.
You're also completely ignoring the context that at that point the country had been locked down: you couldn't leave your house except to get supplies and 1 hour of exercise. Does that sound like the decision of a man that denied the gravity of Covid?
This was all against the background of the government shutting down the country's economy in response to the virus. A torturous definition of "denial" if I've heard one.
That's the trade off every country is making: dangers of the virus Vs long term effects of response to the virus. It's a balancing act. What would you prefer, wanton destruction of everyone's livelihoods in overreaction? Not everyone is lucky enough to have a job that can be done from home, such as us on this site (typically). Every country is trying to avoid shuttering everything.
The quote from Johnson isn't talking about what you're inferring. It was a broad statement of what was going to happen (and it has, across the world): people will still die, in spite of the lockdown. It was a public address, not a policy statement.
It isn't purely the economics: I've had friends and relatives that have had significant effects to their health (including a death) because of being locked in their houses for months.
If you have an account and don't want to leave the article to find out the class, you could enable the metadata gadget. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Dickens [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Metadata_gadget
Based on the name of that preference, as well as this developer page[3] saying "Support for the userChrome.css file and any of its elements described below are not guaranteed in future versions of Firefox", it seems likely userChrome.css will be dropped in the future.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541233
[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0beta/releasenotes/
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tu...
A lot of the discussion reminds me of the arguments put forward by the hereditary peers in the late 90s, before most of them were chucked out of the House of Lords: that their experiences and positions in society made them uniquely able to make important decisions about the country. It's all rather ironic.