I'm like you I just don't agree with this bullying and apartheid system for those not wanting the jab and I know some on this thread will pile in and say fuck them but it doesn't sit easy with me. I've had all mine including the booster yesterday so I'm not anti vacc by any means. Having the jab doesn't stop me catching it or spreading it but will hopefully stop me ending up six feet under if I do. If that's the case why am I allowed to go to concerns, pubs, on holiday etcetera when I've just as much chance of catching and spreading it as somebody unjabbed who isn't? If it kills them for being unjabbed then that's their look out.
It's the same as bloody lockdowns, this has to stop now. People should have a choice. Feel unsafe? Stay indoors. We can't keep on imposing martial law on civilisation willy nilly. Anyone doubting it's martial law only needs to look at Holland where they are firing live rounds at their citizens. Really? In bloody Holland??? Austria banning sections of its population from actually living a life. What next; internment camps??? I don't like where all this appears to be heading.
You have nowhere near as much chance of catching and spreading Covid if you’re vaccinated. You can still catch and spread it, but you’re 50-75% less likely to catch it and spread it than an unvaccinated individual. And where the Delta variant is newer than the vaccines (which were developed for the Alpha and Beta variants) and shows greater vaccine breakthrough, the boosters are geared towards this (as future boosters will be for future variants)… as well as the importance of mask wearing at times of spikes.
And lockdowns aren’t about people feeling safe, they're about the NHS - whether the NHS can cope with the amount of patients they are treating, how much the Covid patients numbers are impacting other aspects of the NHS, and if too many people are dying of Covid (and as a result of being denied treatment because of Covid).
For example, say a hospital has 75 ICU beds and 125 Covid patients require an ICU bed, then the hospital has to take space where other aspects of the NHS works to host them. This means other areas of medical treatment are being pushed back… introduce restrictions or lockdowns which mean there’s a smaller spread and number requiring hospitalisation of Covid and you allow the NHS to work more efficiently and effectively.
People have said Covid will be with us forever now so there will be some Winters where we have to introduce some minor restrictions (mandatory mask wearing), there will be some Winters where tighter restrictions may need to come in (no crowds at gigs and footy, work from home) and some Winters where we have to go into lockdown… but there will also be many Winters where we don’t have to introduce anything and we can have a normal year. I don’t think Covid will be with us forever though and we will get enough herd immunity throughout the world through vaccinations and prevention that we eventually get rid of it from being a widespread virus that cripples health services and the economy. Therefore, tackle it now and early, and we’ll be better off in the long run.
We’ve been living through this for long enough now to understand this, surely?