What worries me now is that we're [our government, anyway] planning boosters jabs
- while the rest of the world has hardly started their first jabs.
If there are going to be pockets of population around the world who have no immunity, then there are going to be more new variants.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 12:02,
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I agree, up to a point.
The fact that no one is discussing, because of sentimentality replacing rationality, is just who Covid is killing. Deaths exclusively in numbers get headlines, so that’s what’s focussed on. But the unpalatable truth is it’s killing geriatrics and the obese. The media is obsessed with statistical outliers, but in the UK the average age of a Covid attributed death is 83. No one is talking about this. It never even gets a mention. Our approach to Covid has never been utilitarian, and people need to understand and accept that humans cannot expect to live forever. Seriously, 83.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 12:47,
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Yeah, oldies, the obese
- and asthmatics like me, and diabetics, like my mate.
You're not wrong, but from where I'm standing at least, it's not acceptable to throw us under the bus.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 19 Sep 2021, 21:59,
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