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Global Covid-19 cases up 80% as new sub-variant emerges
(www.straitstimes.com)
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In a way, people are right. It's just the flu now. Not in symptoms or severity, but in the way that we'll just have to keep doing regular vaccinations.
Just think, if we had shut down for 2~weeks at the beginning and enforced vaccination at gunpoint, we wouldn't be in this mess.
This is why we are completely screwed if a bird flu or other highly transmissible but more deadly than Covid virus starts spreading. There are people who not only will not follow basic health and safety guidelines, they will actively fight, and sabotage other's attempts at following the guidelines.
The other part of the equation is that if the wealthier countries had not only shut down but quickly provided vaccines for poorer more densely populated countries, the spread would also have been lessened.
Oh, you mean working together for the betterment of humanity as a whole? Fat chance.
I find it hilarious (at least you'll laugh until you cry, and/or die) how for some, consent simply does not matter whatsoever.
Have many of the symptoms? Wonder if it's COVID? Enough to go get tested for it at least? And THEN go to visit your 90-year-old granny's house, not bothering to tell her that? Knowing full well that she was just recovering from various sicknesses herself and so has a weak immune system? Edit: oh, and let's say just after the vaccine was invented but before many people were able to get it yet.
In that case, then you ~~MIGHT be~~ ARE a Republican. It is shocking to me how the death tolls were not much larger than they were... except they WERE, and we will never know by how much be of all the misrepresention of the deaths as "old age" or "diabetes", bc obviously it simply could NOT have been COVID (except... remind me again why not?).
Whether you choose to think it's "merely the flu" or not, why doesn't the recipient's concerns matter AT ALL!?
See, I told you it was "funny" - don't you see how "hilarious" it all is? ~~not at all akin to murder in any way, nope, not at all~~
The UK doesn't even do that anymore, unless you're over 65. Otherwise you can't get vaccinated.