Corona Man wrote:Been a passive reader on here more or less the past week, mainly because work has gone mental.
While I am not quite on board with Daisy just yet, the Brett Sutton admission that deaths being recorded as "Covid" may be a little loose..... sure they had Covid, but it may not have been the ultimate cause of their demise. One thing is certain though..... having Covid didn't increase the chances of survival, or improve their quality of life.
From the outset all the government policies (distancing/masks/isolation etc) put in place have been about suppression of transmission, not elimination. Even with a vaccine, I am not sure 100% elimination will be ever be possible. The human race has been around for how long exactly..... and yet there is no cure for the common cold! Whenever we do get a vaccine I will be front and centre, sleeve rolled up, cheers.
My hope is once Melbourne gets the numbers to something a little more reasonable, say 50 cases a day, let's try a different set of distancing policies. It's not like the ones we have been adhering to have been a runaway success.
Rather than locking down Millions of healthy people, lets lock down the elderly & infirmed, or those who feel Corona posses a significant risk to their own health. In other words, everyone takes responsibility for their own individual health and wellbeing, and lets get back to some type of normal.
We have all agreed - stats can say whatever you want them to say. The other stat here is the almost absence of the regular flu this winter. When you compare those that would have died, as a result of regular flu, to Corona is it really worth the financial & mental stresses we are facing?
2 cents spent.
Good post.
However, the bit about people taking responsibility for their own health just won't happen.
Melbourne's the case in point.
Takes one hero dick to front at work with the sniffles and off we go again.
They don't know they've got it and infect a bunch of others, who don't know they've got it.
I know people that are fine managing health issues, ie. compromised immune systems etc.
But with the spectre of covid potentially killing them early, they're justifiably shitting themselves.
They'll have a choice. Going to work will be an inflated risk, or live on unemployment benefits and lock yourself away for god knows how long.
If it wasn't such a transmissible disease then you may take the risk and work.
I still believe that doing the hard yards now is the only way to **** this thing off until a viable safe vaccine is available.