The Virtual Terrace • Re: Players and vaccination
Saddened! wrote:
You seem to have mistaken me for a conspiracy theorist? I'm not a covid denier, I'm tripple jabbed, wear a mask and fully believe it's happening. But the whole thing from day one has been overhyped in the extreme. In reality, the deaths are mainly from the very vulnerable in society, the people who would have died anyway, but of the next thing they caught or the next fall they had. Every life lost has it's own tragedy attached to it of course and there have unquestionably been some outliers who have died from it way before their time.
But those who fall hook, line and sinker for the doomsday predictions from the scientific community are just on the other end of the same spectrum as the conspiracy theorists. There are still people gleefully filling twitter with 'wait and see' messages, hoping for the 6,000 daily deaths the idiots forecast to come true so they can say 'told you so'. Omicron appears less deadly than flu, if that remains the dominant variant the drama and obsession the country has with covid has to end. Testing, isolation, stat collection, all of it. The NHS staff crisis is the latest dramatised subject. NHS staff who are off with a positive test will be back in work in a week and highly unlikely to be off again. There might be a very short term issue, but it's one they'll cope with. The media have been parasitic and toxic throughout with their fear sells sensationalism. There are people who are genuinely terrified of being outside their house and by being around people. My Mum knows people from her WI group that barely left the house since early 2020 as they believe they'll likely die if they do. It's just not healthy all round.
I'll stand by my point that the epidemiologists and scientists will want to maintain the importance of covid over the next two years however. They are earning vast sums from consultancy, media work and their research funding will be through the roof. They will continue to maintain the medias focus on it for as long as they can and keep the gravy train going.
For clarity, not a conspiracy theorist. Get your jabs and boosters people and wear a mask. But try not to be scared of covid.
The bot in bold tells me a lot about your attitude. 120,000 more people died in the year 2020 than was the average for the years 2010-2019. Yes they were elderly and yes they were going to die, but until someone comes up with another reason, covid caused these deaths prematurely and your shoulder shrug attitude isn't reasonable.
I agree that the media will keep running with it, but medical a scientific experts are own to huge peer scrutiny as well as the htpocratic oath, so its doubtful a cabal of civil servants are in cahoots here.
4% of the NHS are off sick at a time when 1% is too many.....
I agree with your sentiment about fear, but your mum's friends are right....if they are old and want to get older, they need to be careful where they go.
Stay safe blighty pals....this bugger is getting weaker and by this time next year it'll be masks and mingle
Statistics: Posted by orangeman — Fri Jan 07, 2022 6:36 pm