My bad, didn’t get what you meant, but yesthus we're being pitched to have them about 3, obviously.
My bad, didn’t get what you meant, but yesthus we're being pitched to have them about 3, obviously.
Most aren't.Not doubling every two days then ?, wasn't it 93k thursday ?. Unless people with it have such mild symptoms they aren't bothering getting tested.
No sweat. And it wasn't aimed particularly at you. I'm sure you saw several posts on here that were not much more than political point scoring. We get regular complaints about such posts derailing the thread. That's why a dedicated thread was created in the politics sub forum.Yeah apologies jim. What a fucking carry on this covid shit is.
I do accept that until there is a "cure" or a way of preventing initial infection for life then whilst we have to "learn to live with Covid" that is a loaded statement that comes with conditions and caveats.
Think of all the other things we live with. We have vaccines etc that prevent things like smallpox and polio but these things can still be out there. The way we can control them is with vaccines - thats how you live with them.
From time to time there are outbreaks of nasty shit in parts - often exotic parts - of the world and there is travel advice issued or even travel bans issued by the host nation or our own FCO.
Sometimes despite everything people get sick with stuff like ebola and bird flu and so on and then measures are taken to isolate and treat them away from the rest of society to try and prevent spread.
Now - when you speak to the deniers they say we have to learn to live with it - they don't mean any of the above they mean just ignore everything - make like its June 1990 or something and you should go around unmasked - ignore calls for vaccinations - travel wherever and whenever you want whatever a potential host nation thinks and ignore the advice of health practitioners - thats not learning anything thats just ignoring something and having faith it will just go away
you were fine to the last paragraph. There are the majority who don't want a booster who simply have doubts that having jabs every 3 months when there's no concrete, conclusive need or benefit to not be worth the potential risk. The other vaccines work, by well, working. You don't get jabbed for smallpox every 3 months because it, well, works.I do accept that until there is a "cure" or a way of preventing initial infection for life then whilst we have to "learn to live with Covid" that is a loaded statement that comes with conditions and caveats.
Think of all the other things we live with. We have vaccines etc that prevent things like smallpox and polio but these things can still be out there. The way we can control them is with vaccines - thats how you live with them.
From time to time there are outbreaks of nasty shit in parts - often exotic parts - of the world and there is travel advice issued or even travel bans issued by the host nation or our own FCO.
Sometimes despite everything people get sick with stuff like ebola and bird flu and so on and then measures are taken to isolate and treat them away from the rest of society to try and prevent spread.
Now - when you speak to the deniers they say we have to learn to live with it - they don't mean any of the above they mean just ignore everything - make like its June 1990 or something and you should go around unmasked - ignore calls for vaccinations - travel wherever and whenever you want whatever a potential host nation thinks and ignore the advice of health practitioners - thats not learning anything thats just ignoring something and having faith it will just go away
Quite right. You can usually tell the ones with a garden and some spare space in the house, for whom working from home is no issue whatsoever. (As long as the delivery drivers, doctors, nurses, bin men, supermarket workers, and people who run takeaways don’t say “bollocks to it, I’ll stay at home as well!”)My mate lost his business and I used to work with a guy who threw himself off a bridge in the middle of the first and longest lockdown.
Im with you on the vaccines but let’s not pretend there’s fuck all collateral damage with lockdowns.
And yet many over 65’s still can’t get an appointment and 90%+ of sub Saharan Africa haven’t had one yet. I’m not having a pop at your lad there but we do seem to have got our priorities a bit skewed.My son and his girlfriend (both 22) got their boosters today as walk-ins at a pop up centre in Salford Quays. No queue whatsoever so it might be worth seeing if a pop up will appear near you rather than trying a regular site.