Footy Matt
All Australian
Let me summarise my previous post.
If we go back to 2019 mode, even if totally vaccinated, 80,000 people per year die in Australia from covid (if my assumptions are correct).
I get it, you would rather have things back in 2019 mode and have 80,000 covid deaths a year than be in 2020/21 mode and have 8,000 or 800 covid deaths a year.
160,000 people die each year anyway, its just how half of them die that's different, i.e. strapped to a ventilator with no family by their side.
Your entitled to that opinion, just don't expect me to vote for you.
What I think we should do, and I've been saying this since my first post is:
- Allow those under 50 (that are not vulnerable) to go back to business as usual once immunised.
- Lower the pension age to 60 or introduce a universal wage that kicks in at age 50
- Maintain a decent level of social distancing in situations where you are exposed to people over 50 (or who are vulnerable).
- If you are vulnerable don't be a dumbass.
So basically - be Japandanavia (take the best practices from both).
I could live with it if they implemented most of those suggestions, but what I’m struggling to understand is what continuing to put crippling restrictions on society is going to achieve in the long run, even looking at it from an egocentric health perspective? If everyone who wants to be is vaccinated, how does opening right up the moment that happens differ from opening up a couple of years down the track? The people who don’t get vaccinated or don’t reach immunity are going to get the disease eventually regardless, because the vaccine is the last line of defence? Restrictions and social distancing would just drag the pandemic out longer.
Additionally, current research on the vaccine has it 100% effective at preventing severe life-ending illness regardless, so where do your number of death examples come from? Are you solely talking about people who refuse to vaccinate?