Originally posted by jio
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So if you mix only vaccinate the older population and allow the virus to spread through the lower risk groups, you’re still going to have deaths. In comparison, if everyone has the vaccine (which I also know isn’t a 100% possibility) then the virus essentially fizzles out like Mariah come January.
I don’t consider my language or choice of words to be sensationalist. Too many people have died from this virus already and we have a growing section of the population either against the virus, against lockdown measure or both. There is a harsh truth to my words and for some people it’s a very bitter pill to swallow.
I have had the same conversation with family members and had to ask done of them what they would do if the caught the virus (through not following the rules) and you passed it onto someone you loved that then died?
The response is always ‘I wouldn’t be able to live with myself’ - and that is why we must band together and fix the problem before it gets out of control. Covid-19 is within our control at the moment, but only just. How we deal with it over the next 12 months could make it a permanent mainstay and I am bitterly against that.
I appreciate that the two viruses previously eradicated took a long time - but we didn’t have the infrastructure we do in 2020 to deal with it. There was a couple of world wars to deal with and the concept of universal healthcare was relatively alien - plus people have a deep mistrust of anything medical and would turn the cheek in case a doctor gave them bad news.
But Covid is so new that we have a real chance to catch it before it really takes hold, and I don’t understand not wanting to do so.
The irony of course is that if everyone stayed at home and followed the rules and literally did not leave home for 1 solid month then it would largely be wiped out. We have seen how successful lockdowns have been in dramatically reducing the spread of the virus and if we had held on longer it would have worked - but no country could afford to do that.
But we have people moaning they can’t go to the gym or have their haircut, like that’s the end of the world.
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