Carl D wrote on Nov 25^th, 2022 at 8:06pm:


Firstly, I would never ask you why you're still wearing a mask. Because, it's none of my business. And, if you ask me, "Why I'm NOT wearing a mask?". I would answer, "Because I am NOT infected.". "Nor, am I likely to become infected". And, "even if I were infected, I would still have a 99% chance of surviving.". I would also tell you that, if I were infected and recovered, that "my naturally-induced antibodies, are more broad-spectrum, and have a much lower affinity against this pathogen. Not like the mRNA vaccine-induced antibodies.".

Carl D wrote on Nov 25^th, 2022 at 3:21pm:


That's 17.6 lives per day during that week. There are around 470 Australians dying every day(171,469 death in 2021). Again, you don't mention, age, comorbidities, or any other factors contributing to these deaths. There have been an average of 15.5 people dying WITH/FROM this virus, for the last almost 3 years. So, 14 deaths with/from this virus, is slightly below the average number of deaths. And 14/470 deaths, represents roughly only 3% of ALL daily deaths in Australia. Just more irresponsible  fear-mongering. By citing only the number of cases and deaths, and omitting any context or perspective.

My question is still the same. Just how far are you willing to go to protect everyone from this virus? Are you willing to do anything, regardless of how it may affect the overwhelming majority of Australians, who are  NOT even infected? Should we shoot anyone on sight for NOT wearing a mask or distancing themselves? Should we lock-up and fine anyone who refuses to be tracked, or obtain a Covid-19 ID Passport? Should we use our tax revenue to build interment prisons, to greet anyone suspected of carrying this virus? Should we close down all non-essential businesses, and put more people back on the dole? Should we completely isolate Australia from the rest of the world? Should we turn Australia into a society of paranoic, germophobic, mask-wearing, vaccine junkies?

Also, implying that we don't care about the elderly or the infirmed, is a non-sequitur argument. We can't control who will be infected and who won't. Nor, can we control all the other factors contributing to the death of those infected.

You seem to forget, that we are NOT helpless against this virus. We DO have an immune system, whose only job is to fight pathogens. And, it does this very well. It does not need any help from vaccines. Vaccines do not fight or protect anyone from any pathogen. Its only value is therapeutic. It only indirectly PROMPTS the immune system, to start producing narrow-spectrum, high-affinity, and highly specific antibodies. It takes our Acquired Immune System 1-3 days to produce its own pathogen-induced antibodies naturally.

I think the world has learned two lessons from this madness. That there is nothing man can physically do to stop any organism, that is smaller than the  wavelength of visible light. And, that even very smart people can come up with very stupid solutions.

      

For Shellshilo and aquascoot (well, maybe not aqua and his usual word salad so much). 

I was reading an interesting discussion somewhere a few days back where it was theorized that if eveyone in the world wore a mask for just 2 weeks then SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) could be finally eliminated or almost eliminated.

But, it require every single person on the planet to wear a mask at all times when outside their homes and the chances of that happening are... well... nil.

Even when we had mandatory masks for most indoor places here in Australia we had a large daily number of "dick noses" and "chin nappies/warmers" mostly with not particularly effective (against viruses at least) surgical "baggy blue" masks.

At least that's another good thing about high quality masks, it is very difficult not to wear them properly, i.e. covering the nose and mouth although I'm sure some people would try their hardest not to wear them properly.

But, even if say 70% of the world's population wore masks for a minimum of 2 weeks it would still cause a huge drop in the number of cases (and hospitalisations and deaths) worldwide.

Let's face it - at this stage of the pandemic anything would be better than the "do nothing" approach now being practiced by Australia's (and most Western countries') governments.