CV and mad panic behaviour

[DJC]

Whats the answer then?

Hide indoors, locked away doing nothing?

We have all gotten vaccinated.  We are all still wearing masks in public. 

When we lost my dad back in 2005, we all declared that life was precious and you shouldnt take a minute for granted because it might be the last minute you get to spend with your loved ones.  Two years on, we are now in a position where we are adequately protected to get on with it and with the knowledge that the majority of people will be perfectly fine, but these statistics you quote, and these cases LP point to aren't necessarily people who are in hospital because of covid, and (I would know because I saw it up close and personal for the last couple of years) and many of the people I know who are aged, vulnerable, vaccinated, AND got COVID, are still alive and kicking quite happily.

COVID isnt the threat everyone told you it was.  Sorry to burst your bubble.



The sooner you all come to terms with the fact that its a matter of when not if, and the fact that when you do it, the odds are overwhelmingly stacked in favour of a perfectly fine recovery and minimal symptoms, the better you will feel about it.

The numbers arent worth talking about, the world is very much ok with COVID, and our infections are not that high considering the trains are full again.

I agree with most of that Thry, although public transport use remains at around one third of pre-pandemic levels, and COVID is definitely the threat that we feared; 6M deaths worldwide (and we know that figure is grossly understated and global excess deaths could be as much as 24M - see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-0...rrection-0).

I think that contracting COVID is inevitable and, with luck, vaccination and no underlying compromising conditions, it should be a relatively mild illness.  However, there are exceptions and some folk I know have been very ill.  Then there's long COVID and the increased risk of heart problems and strokes. 

It all seems to be going according to the modelling, with the exception of the Delta variant that caught everyone unawares.  Another curve ball could be heading our way or we could be dealing with another seasonal flu-like illness ... with complications.  Of course, that's just us with our relatively sophisticated health and governance systems.  It's a different kettle of fish in other parts of the world. 

It's also interesting to look at the Australian median death rates by ethnicity.  Some groups in our country are being hit much harder.  That could be down to socio-economic factors or cultural/religious attitudes to vaccination and/or medical treatment.  I don't think that it could be different population demographics, but it could be.