Carl D wrote on Nov 23
rd, 2022 at 8:57am:
Another day... all Covid numbers up again in Victoria.
Cases.................. up 3,861.
Hospitalisations... up 70.
ICU.......................up 7.
Deaths..................up 7.
Not a word still from the Prime Minister or any of the State Premiers about Australia reaching the new grim milestone of 16,000 Covid deaths yesterday.
Or condolences offered to the families of the dead.
The fact that none of the State Premiers say anything is a pretty good indication that this unanimous silence from them isn't political, there seems to be more 'sinister' forces at work here.
Meanwhile, Anthony Kardashian is too busy having photos taken with international cricketers and movie stars to be concerned about Covid deaths and hospitalisations.
(Anyone else starting to suspect Anthony is really a robot or android? I mean, he's got that same stupid expression on his face in nearly every single picture he's in.
Might also explain how he's managing to avoid Covid these days despite him never wearing a mask wherever he goes).
Firstly, unless the Prime Minister is a God, there is absolutely nothing he(or anyone else) can do to stop any virus from infecting anyone. Unless you plan to buy a completely self-contained Hazmat suit, and live indefinitely at the bottom of a pool, this virus can infect you. This virus will simply run its course. Until the more and more people it has infected, become the more and more people it can't infect(herd immunity). This is how we've treated all the other past viral and bacterial infections. Educate and Treat!
70 people hospitalize, out of 3,861 cases(1.8%)? 7 deaths out of 3,861 cases in all of Australia(0.2%)? This represents well over a 95% survival rate for anyone who has been infected. Not exactly the most lethal of viruses, is it?
I'm sorry that 7 elderly infirmed, over 80yo Australians, have died with/from this virus. Since I don't know what other chronic immunocompromised illness contributed to their deaths, I can't really comment. But, we all have our own "shelf-life". And, I doubt that even the Prime Minister could do much about it when that "shelf-life" runs out.
But 7 death from anything, out of over 26M people does NOT justify the shutting down of the country, and its economy. It DOESN'T justify turning normal Australians into a cult of walking, talking, mask-wearing, paranoid, germophobic, vaccine junkies. It DOESN'T justify the use of coercion, threats, discrimination, and being forced to choose between a jab or your job. It DOESN'T justify the closures of small and other designated unessential businesses.
It DOESN'T justify fines and arrest for Australians, who refuse to comply with impossible, ineffective, and misleading mandates. It DOESN'T justify border checkpoints, or being forced to acquire ID passports and tracking apps. And, it definitely DOESN'T justify the building of interment camps to imprison people who are the VICTIMS of an illness, or simply as a prudent precaution.
Surely, you are not just another mean-spirited gullible misanthrope. A person who enjoys watching the suffering of others. I would hate to imagine, just how far this government would go, if there really was a more lethal epidemic? Instead of a virus no more lethal than the measles? And our idea of a cure, has done more damage to ourselves, than this virus ever could.
This was just more of the same media fear-mongering theatrics, just to increase their ratings and their viewing audience.
Remember, the only thing that matters from all of your stats, IS THE MORTALITY RATE. How many people are actually dying from this virus? And Why? When you say 3,861 people are infected today, I see 26,113,552 people who are NOT infected today(current pop. is 26,117,413 Australians). Or, only 0.01% of the entire population is infected today. Should we now stop all flights from entering and leaving Australia?