Relaxation of restrictions and Covid still on the increase - ??

sporina

So, long story short - Mum (80) was in a nursing home - Dad (83) living at home with 2 brothers.

Dad got Covid (had no idea he had it till he was admitted to hospital - couldn't walk - hence admission - didn't have classic Covid symptoms).. then Mum got sick - admitted to hospital - tested + for Covid - had a cardiac arrest and passed away a few days later. Turns out one of my brother's at home was sick but would not get tested - said it was a cold apparently.. Dad believed him.. he tested +ve when he eventually went for a test (both parent's in hospital at this stage). I only learnt of him being sick when Dad went into hospital.

Both parent's wer fully vaccinated. Dad still in hospital 1 mth later and v poorly.

So, would seem that my parent's lost their immunity about 9 mths after vaccination.. boosters only been given since last week afaik..

But in the news, hearing about rising numbers of Covid cases but plans to relax restrictions further.. there is no mention of the fact that the elderly/vulnerable need boosters now.. obviously they are at risk - I am sure my parent's are not the only ones in this position.

Seems like a juxtaposition to me.. surely restrictions should not be eased until boosters are administered?

I don't get it.. thoughts? (would appreciate factual replies) TIA

average_runner

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Boosters are currently being given out. While I am sorry to hear about your situation, we can't keep the country locked down forever. Its not the opening of things that are causing the issues, its the behaviour of people not getting tested and not isolating is causing the issue.

Other European countries are fully open, less vaccinated than us and their number of cases are a fraction of ours.

The good news though, is that our hospital numbers are one of the lowest in Europe, so vaccines are working.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

It seems that the first wave of vaccinations are now expiring. So we are going to have to roll out boosters at the same impressive rate as first time around, to keep the 90% rate.

It will be difficult to maintain this, given more emphasis on vaccines to third world countries. It is foolish to lift restrictions. A roll back of previous lifted restrictions should happen.

shesty

So basically what you are suggesting is that we should have permanent restrictions because by the time we hand boosters out to everyone this time next year, the first wave of vaccines will be expiring again, and on it goes??

Not a viable solution.

Dickie10

Unfortunately these things do happen and will continue to happen, covid is just another virus to kill us, i suppose we all know deep down if one thing dosent get us like heart disease or cancer something else will, no one gets out alive. time to keep moving on.

Really very sorry to hear of the death of your Mum and poorly condition of your Dad.

It becoming more evident a third vaccine is pretty much essential for adequate immunity and likely with annual boosters. Other diseases have needed tweaking of vaccine regimens to get it right, so no surprise about Covid.

Condolences on your bereavement and hope your Dad might either recover or find some comfort in his suffering.

User1998

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Very sorry for your troubles but its time for us to get on with life

Parachutes

Shield your Dad, I don’t see why the vast majority of the population who are at little to no risk of ending up in a bad way after covid (reduced even further considering vast majority are vaccinated) should suffer to accommodate a tiny percentage of the population. We all have done our bit.