How do you suggest we cure people of old age and what role can Neil Young play in fighting this horrible disease?
Also, can your Mrs. start posting instead of you?
This latest strain as is typical of most pandemics is far more transmissible than its previous versions Fog but again like most pandemics and how they evolve far less deadly its just that the sheer weight of cases outweighs its relative mortality so in countries like Australia the death rate with and from covid have increased considerably along with case numbers.
in reality many daily cases numbers under this strain are not being recorded accurately or nearly as accurately as before with the delta strain or the alpha strain for example.
QR codes are useless for omicron for example and contact testing and tracing pretty much useless as well.
In one day for example we would have as many people contract omicron at the peak of this latest outbreak as contracted alpha in totality and then some.
Over 2 million Australians have contracted omicron already despite the stats saying less while around 70k contracted alpha over a much greater period of time.
We don't cure old age but we can use science and advancement to enable the average human being live longer and healthier pandemic or no pandemic.
Our ancestors on average will live well in their 120's for example most likely within the next 100 -200 years or so.
Neil Young other than his voice will play no role in fighting covid in all its forms , he can remind his network and his immediate family to look after themselves as best as possible particularly given his own family circumstances and has the resources and networks to do so better than most given his audiences like for his music etc.
I am not Wayne71 misses she is unlike you and me Fog I am sure far too busy to concern herself on this forum and thread but he is referring to and reiterating some basic facts about the data particularly as it relates to Australia and given the high vaccinations rates as I mentioned a while time ago far more of the 30k or so deaths that will occur from covid and with covid in Australia in the next 12 months will come from those with 2 or 3 doses that is just simple mathematics as play.
this is why already despite having over 95 per cent of population of NSW double vaxxed some 95 per cent of deaths now occurring from or with covid are those who have been double and in some cases tripled vaxxed.
While I understand where Bill is coming from he is tad ignorant of the facts that at least with this current strain and wave in Australia and likely replicated in many other countries the data suggests that transmitting from vaccinated to vaccinated is as likely as transmitting from vaccinated to unvaccinated and vice versa.
Notwithstanding the new versions and how they will evolve and how they are transmitted from human to human its reasonable to suggest as the Lancet already has that at least with the current strain it matters little whether you are vaccinated or not in terms of you transmitting the disease but why you and everybody should be triple vaxxed is that your risk of serious disease and death is dramatically reduced if you are triple vaxxed and no doubt a 6 months booster if available should be taken by all those that have and can access it for years to come on a regular basis ala influenza particularly as you age and have significant comorbidities.
unfortunately many who are triple vaxxed and subsequently booster vaxxed will die from or with covid just like they do with influenza etc and the older you are generally the higher risk you are of that but that goes with most viral diseases and many other diseases as well and many of those will have contracted the disease from someone who is triple and booster vaxxed.
I am still bemused as those who class ALL those who cannot get vaxxed or prefer not to be vaxxed as anti vaxxers and the political , social and medical consequences that they claim will follow.
Not doing something doesn't mean you are anti everyone else choosing to do the opposite so to speak.
Like you I am not happy about those who spread misinformation about the vaccine and those who protest telling others that they should not be vaxxed.
it makes sense on all grounds you should get vaccinated and encourage others who haven't to do likewise but if you do not particularly when the vast bulk of your social and professional network have you shouldn't be labelled an antivaxxer albeit that term will diminish with its social impact with the passage of time if you chose not to.
Foolish and misguided IMO if you don't but I will never treat an unvaccinated person as a second class or worse citizen or someone whose opinion on other matters should be disregarded if they decide not to as tends to be the case on social media and many other forums including this one.
