Big Donger wrote on Jan 24
th, 2023 at 5:38pm:
Personal responsibility, eh?
Do you mean locking oneself away to not catch covid?
Locking others away?
Or forcing oneself to not die and refusing to submit to long covid?
Please explain?
Australians have been personally responsible for their own health since the 50's. And, our population has steadily increased since then.
The real question is, do you want any government body to decide what your health decisions should be? Or, to force/coerce you to make the health decisions they want? Clearly, this is a very dangerous precedent to be setting.
Being forced/coerced, shamed into putting anything into your body, is putting your life into someone else's hands. The government and society can control everything OUTSIDE of my body, but only I control what goes on INSIDE of my body. And, I'm not willing to give that control away to anyone.
The key thing to understand about any virus, is that a virus is NOT alive until it infects its host. So, there is nothing you can do to kill viruses(not like bacteria), before they can infect you. Viruses are everywhere, and have been here for billions of years. They are in foods, on surfaces, on the ground, in our bodies, and in the air. Our bodies(immune system) have been dealing with viruses since we took our first poop(at birth).
So, unless you plan to stop breathing, or wear a fully self-contained Hazmat suit, and start living indefinitely at the bottom of a swimming pool, there is nothing you can do to physically avoid NOT becoming infected! NOTHING!
But all is not lost. We have new a better medical treatments available, to ease your suffering if you ever become infected. And this treatment is actually targeting a real viral infection. Not just mimicking one!
So, a virus with a case fatality rate of less than 1%, just does NOT justify this level of stupidity and ignorance!