Covid's respiratory illness as is the flu, covid has a much higher mortality rate. Hence they did introduce those precautions.I don't think they would have introduced those precautions tbh, just told everyone to get the flu jab.
Yeah, what's 5 million deaths? They're expendable yeah? Gonna a die anyway. Nevermind any ongoing pulmonary, cardiological or neurological effects. Why should I be inconvenienced?I would argue that 99.9% of the 0.08% of people who will die with a positive covid-19 test are already known to the health and aged care systems.
Those people are the ones that are being protected, those are the ones who should be in isolation.
And I'd also argue that at least a third of those people will pass away within three to five years, probably more like three to five months.
Who's in isolation? Over the past two years of the pandemic, our lives have hardly been affected in any serious way in this neck of the woods (even with one of the strongest economies going around to boot). We're in a transition phase and Omicron's been a spanner in the works, so it is best to be treading carefully for a bit. Trying to wish it away or ignore it just increases the likelihood of more variants and potentially more lethal strains if left to rampage unfettered.