BirdInFlight wrote:
Do not tell me or anyone to "get a grip."
AND DO NOT interpret anything people say on this thread as "fear."
You don't even f*****g know me. I'm ANGRY more than anything, and SICK AND TIRED of MY innocent people being killed. Thats the bottom line for me.
I am not going to change anything I do, but IT IS F--CKING SCARY TO BE LIVING IN A MAJOR CITY knowing jihadist views are among us.
I LIVE IN LONDON.
Where do YOU live? Boisie? Podunk? Smalltown, Illinois?
Don't f*****g judge how others feel about something unless you live in the places that ARE getting attacked on a repeated basis
I do live in one of those places.
I just learned that one of the attackers live a short walk away from my friend's house.
A jihadist group is known to have held meetings a mile from my house.
One of the lone wolf knife attacks a while ago took place in my local tube station fifteen minutes after I WAS THERE.
So don't even GO THERE telling ME what to feel or to get a grip.
People win the lottery. People get stuck by lightning. Throwing statistics at people doesn't help when you happen to be the lucky one who got your throat slashed just for having a beer on a Saturday night.
It's not fear of likelihood -- it's an appropriate reasonable sense that we ARE dealing with an entire CLIMATE right here among us.
I am NOT going to to engage with people like YOU who want to tell people to get a grip.
I HAVE a "grip." I'm not fearful I am sick and tired and ANGRY -- I''m defiant but I DO realize I live in a f****d up place.
WE HAVE A REAL PROBLEM in the very climate of our city and out country here. It's not "fear" to acknowledge there is an issue we need to get on top of and IT IS a big issue.
You are trivializing this larger picture of the climate of this situation.
Let's put things in perspective...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BlitzQuote:
Probably the most devastating strike occurred on the evening of 29 December, when German aircraft attacked the City of London itself with incendiary and high explosive bombs, causing a firestorm that has been called the Second Great Fire of London.[135] The first group to use these incendiaries was Kampfgruppe 100 which despatched 10 "pathfinder" He 111s. At 18:17, it released the first of 10,000 fire bombs, eventually amounting to 300 dropped per minute.[136] Altogether, 130 German bombers destroyed the historical centre of London.[137] Civilian casualties on London throughout the Blitz amounted to 28,556 killed, and 25,578 wounded. The Luftwaffe had dropped 18,291 short tons (16,593 t) of bombs.[138]
Not all of the Luftwaffe effort was made against inland cities. Port cities were also attacked to try to disrupt trade and sea communications. In January Swansea was bombed four times, very heavily. On 17 January around 100 bombers dropped a high concentration of incendiaries, some 32,000 in all. The main damage was inflicted on the commercial and domestic areas. Four days later 230 tons was dropped including 60,000 incendiaries. In Portsmouth Southsea and Gosport waves of 150 bombers destroyed vast swaths of the city with 40,000 incendiaries. Warehouses, rail lines and houses were destroyed and damaged, but the docks were largely untouched.[139] In January and February 1941, Luftwaffe serviceability rates declined, until just 551 of 1,214 bombers were combat worthy. Seven major and eight heavy attacks were flown, but the weather made it difficult to keep up the pressure. Still, at Southampton, attacks were so effective morale did give way briefly with civilian authorities leading people en masse out of the city.[134]
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No collapse of morale
Although the intensity of the bombing was not as great as prewar expectations so an equal comparison is impossible, no psychiatric crisis occurred because of the Blitz even during the period of greatest bombing of September 1940. An American witness wrote "By every test and measure I am able to apply, these people are staunch to the bone and won't quit ... the British are stronger and in a better position than they were at its beginning". People referred to raids as if they were weather, stating that a day was "very blitzy".[65]
According to Anna Freud and Edward Glover, London civilians surprisingly did not suffer from widespread shell shock, unlike the soldiers in the Dunkirk evacuation.[66] The psychoanalysts were correct, and the special network of psychiatric clinics opened to receive mental casualties of the attacks closed due to lack of need. Although the stress of the war resulted in many anxiety attacks, eating disorders, fatigue, weeping, miscarriages, and other physical and mental ailments, society did not collapse. The number of suicides and drunkenness declined, and London recorded only about two cases of "bomb neuroses" per week in the first three months of bombing. Many civilians found that the best way to retain mental stability was to be with family, and after the first few weeks of bombing avoidance of the evacuation programs grew.[67][68][69]
The cheerful crowds visiting bomb sites were so large they interfered with rescue work,[64] pub visits increased in number (beer was never rationed), and 13,000 attended cricket at Lord's. People left shelters when told instead of refusing to leave, although many housewives reportedly enjoyed the break from housework. Some people even told government surveyors that they enjoyed air raids if they occurred occasionally, perhaps once a week. Despite the attacks, defeat in Norway and France, and the threat of invasion, overall morale remained high; a Gallup poll found only 3% of Britons expected to lose the war in May 1940, another found an 88% approval rating for Churchill in July, and a third found 89% support for his leadership in October. Support for peace negotiations declined from 29% in February. Each setback caused more civilians to volunteer to become unpaid Local Defence Volunteers, workers worked longer shifts and over weekends, contributions rose to the £5,000 "Spitfire Funds" to build fighters, and the number of work days lost to strikes in 1940 was the lowest in history.[70]
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04 Jun 2017, 6:02 am
