SilliamWhale
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Covid isn't a nasty cold. We're just lucky that, with our individual immunity trained by vaccination or by being fortunate enough not to be harmed by having encountered Covid without having been vaccinated, this currently dominant variant seems less troublesome than its predecessors. It's still killing people. With luck there won't be a new variant that isn't like that, but it isn't guaranteed.
The pandemic is not over. SARS-CoV-2 has consequences for health for everyone who catches it. Vaccines continue to be vital to reduce negative effects of catching covid. Just a few weeks of leeway brought about by further vaccination could make all the difference to somebody's quality of life. Roll on needle-free administration of vaccination. It's only manufacture of the means of delivery that's holding it back.
What is so difficult to understand about the need for individual citizens to exercise personal responsibility for their own health and not to compromise that of those around them? What's so difficult to understand about the need for individuals as an electorate to weed out those in government who put their own and their mates' business interests first, and the welfare of the population well below that? In an ideal world, health provision per head of population would be small, brilliantly precise, and extremely agile, because the population takes care of itself at individual and social level. Easycare humans, if you will.
Sars Cov doesn't have health consequences for everyone who catches it. I'm sorry but this level of navel gazing is not helpful - the vast vast majority of people feel crap for about 3-4 days and the move on. There are some people who get hit worse.
I'd agree with you that individual citizens need to take personal responsibility for their own health but where we disagree is that other peoples actions impact others. Masks/ lockdowns/ social distancing/ vax passports are all based on feelings with no evidence ie " i feel safer with a bit of cloth on my face" but it doesn't mean anything. Its why all attempts to think the virus can be controlled have failed.