Originally Posted by
imaragingbull
Well said Ziggy.
You guys would know better being on the ground, but it feels like patience is wearing thin on these ludicrous lockdowns due to a few positive cases. There are ~17 people in hospital nationwide right now, and that stops a nation from flying internationally to conduct business, see family, attend milestone events?
How many people would be in hospital at a given point due to the seasonal flu, other diseases, car accidents? It astounds me the lack of preparation to move towards the end-game in all of this. The governments thought it was ‘cool’ to go into lockdown like other larger nations, except that these nations moved on from this ~July last year.
The vulnerable and elderly should already be vaccinated and immune. Now older Australians can get protection if they want it. Before long it will be 0 - 30 year olds that have not yet had their vaccine... With this, there will be positive cases... but the entire point of it is that there won’t be severity of symptoms or outcomes. Serious illnesses should be monitored, not positive cases (majority from quarantine). It’s time to move on.
And as it’s mentioned... if you don’t want to get the vaccine, that’s your prerogative. But at some point, Australia will join the rest of the world and need to return to normal life.
New York is approaching 70% of adult population having at least one does. Once they hit that “much of the remaining covid restrictions will be removed”. The city is back, and this topic is tiresome.