We have to accept some risk of Covid-19
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Yet the media always wants to portray this as a war between two sides: The die-hard anti-vaxxers who refuse to do anything versus the totalitarian pro-lockdown people who want society to grind to a halt until the virus disappears. Yes, it’s true that if you go searching for them it’s not hard to find internet extremists who fall into either camp. They may even come out of the woodwork if you post the right bait on social media.
But in my experience, the vast majority of people in the real world are somewhere in the middle rather than gravitating to extremes. They understand that some measures are necessary, some risk is inevitable, and there are no magic billets. Yet everywhere I look we’re giving headlines and attention to the smaller minority of people who want everything to be an extremist, one-sided debate.
Ansd, now, they have this: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-victor...
> Melbourne extends COVID lockdown; 'no jab, no job' in Sydney
I hear about two groups. The people (1) who don't want to do anything (vaccines or mask) and who want to force life to go back to normal, and (2) the people who want businesses and schools to enforce mask wearing and and encourage vaccinations. And really, the second group is compromising, in my opinion.
You know there are people who (3) want mandatory vaccinations, passports and those without to be lockdown, fired, etc and then (4) the other extreme, for non-vaccinated people to be thrown into the ovens.
(2) is the reasonable spot, but most people (social media) and politicians seem to be pushing (3).
And I'm really freaking pissed off about it.
We just can't do this forever. If you're vaccinated, you're more likely to die in a car crash than from COVID. So why aren't we shutting down the roads?
The problem people aren't thinking about too much, but should be, is that the longer it circulates, the more it can evolve to something far more dangerous. Delta is already a little worse than what we started with, and there's still a lot of leeway. It's going to be a lot harder to get the numbers down low enough that our hospitals aren't constantly full of people dying from Covid than a lot of people keep pretending. It didn't affect kids much before. Now Delta is here, and the hospitals are filled with kids suffering in ways we thought they wouldn't be a year ago.
People are already being turned away from hospitals for non-Covid emergencies like cancer treatments because the beds are full of people with severe Covid. It isn't personal. It affects the masses.
That's why we need to be strict about getting this out of the general global population. It's not a good time to be wishy-washy about whether it affects you personally or not.