Redmond Neck wrote on Oct 10^th, 2021 at 12:25pm:


Prob be there by weeks end. We're now at 90% single, and I bet the majority of people with a single dose are kids. My daughter had Fizzer 2 on Friday and she said most of her mates are getting their 2nd this week.

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Bobby. wrote on Oct 10^th, 2021 at 12:05pm:


We'll see what happens in the next few months. If there's more cases and more lockdowns after 80-90% vaccinations, the vaccination program will be a fizzer

The worst of the Spanish Flu was two years, Covid is nearly two years, just a few months to go, so it looks like it's burning itself out with some help from lockdowns and social distancing.

The vaccination program may end up being the worlds biggest and best placebo, making us believe it will protect us from Covid, when in fact, the other preventative measures were doing the trick. Places have looked like ghost towns and cities, on TV

Tomorrow and thereafter, I'll still be wearing a mask and social distancing, about 10 feet, maybe more

 

NorthOfNorth wrote on Oct 10^th, 2021 at 3:03pm:



people nowadays are addicted to endless bad news and national disasters.
they looooove it

Bias_2012 wrote on Oct 10^th, 2021 at 2:48pm:



"the Spanish Flu was two years"

FALSE.

It's still around today - it's the H1N1 virus.
It's now a weakened variant and we have most likely all had it.

aquascoot wrote on Oct 10^th, 2021 at 3:48pm:

Unfortunately true.

In 1920, the world was exhausted with bad news from the great war and the ensuing pandemic.

It had a searing effect in Germany, culminating in large part to the rise of Nazism which was obsessed with cleanliness.

It's been over 75 years since we have had to deal with a true existential crisis.

During the Vietnam war, we were saturated with daily accounts of the war, as it was touted as being necessary for Australia's existence, our having made the ignorant assumption that the Vietnamese and the Chinese were like-minded and indistinguishable.

Since then, however, war has become entertainment as opposed to existential threat; something that happens to other people far away.

This pandemic has proved that we are not used to true threats (as evidenced by how well the Taiwanese handled it; their being used to imminent threat) and have responded largely instinctively, including the strange counter-intuitive response of pretending the disaster doesn't exist.

Gordon wrote on Oct 10^th, 2021 at 7:33pm:

Yes... But we can't be blamed for living in easy times. Even our politicians honestly had no idea how to manage this pandemic in the first few weeks of the outbreak.

The Taiwanese, however, were ready (by nature) and responded with absolute calm, managing the crisis with a presence of mind and a plan that worked, that indicated they were well used to staying calm and moving on in the face of an existential threat.

The world has much to learn from the Taiwanese; who deserve our respect and have earned our help when needed.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Oct 10^th, 2021 at 7:39pm:


The politicians knew what to do, or their medical advisors would have. What they didn't know was what response was appropriate and what people would put up with and I think we got it mostly right.

If it was a virus that liquefies your organs in 6 hours with 100% fatality, bring out the army and shoot people who break curfew. Something that most healthy people are asymptomatic with, we got it about right.

My point was, the media and social media amp up the fear of everything, that sells papers, ads, facebook clicks.