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It's concerning the way ideas like this are being put out there. Where does it end?

There's no reason to believe that "herd immunity" is a possibility in eliminating covid. There's also no reason to think that unvaccinated people will be drivers of new variants. It will be vaccinated people in poor health that drive new variants.

Well worth a read. Are we creating more instability in the population's health with lockdowns than might otherwise have been the case?

That has to be rubbish, their immunity would have to be very poor even before march 2020 to be getting sick now. A year in lockdown isn't going to affect a healthy person, I saw a guy on BBC warning us not to be taking the concerns of ''Spoilt Millenials'' too seriously now

I'm sure if you type in any theory about covid into google you'll get plenty of posts supporting it, such is the self elected experts out there.

Not sure if weve read the same article but what I gathered from it was that it was babies (under two years im presuming) suffering from RSV. A child two years of age or under over there has been locked down for there first winter so theyve missed the exposure to RSV plain and simple nothing to do with them being f#cked to start with. Funny a while back it was all about wrapping youre genration in cotton wool to save ye but now that its gone full circle youre more or less repeating what i said a while back but just putting a spin on it to suit yourself.

It seems that in the US they are starting to acknowledge that being vaccinated does not mean that one is not capable of spreading covid. Masks for all once more.

If people thought they'd still be treated the same as unvaccinated, would uptake be as high I wonder...

Now you know

Met an uncle for a few pints the weekend gone 8 of us at the table and i being twenty years younger than the rest i havent gottten the vaccine yet, one lad remarked "jesus were all vaccinated we could end up getting the delta off you now". Its still gonna be last orders at 1130pm for the vaxxed and unvaxxed this weekend too as far as i can see, well all be wearing masks too and we wont be mixing with other tables whether were indoors or outdoors either.

I think if you go back you'll find that I was the poster that said that I didn't care what the young people did as long as they didn't clog up the hospitals and funeral homes. The lockdown didn't worry me a lot one way or the other

The thing is, this is not news, in that the vaccine developers have said this since the start - that they don't prevent transmission or infection.

The vaccine is only to reduce the likelihood of hospitalization in an individual.

Hence the push to vaccinate those not medically vulnerable has no scientific basis whatsoever.

Its akin to putting an ashtray on a motorbike.

Jaysus wrangler, for a lad who said ya were going to live your life after getting the vaccine, you spend an awful amount of time looking over the ditch at what everyone else is doing.

I've been recommended to get the flu vaccine with over 15 years at this stage.

Got it the first 3 years when it was said to me. Was always sick in the days after vaccination and it would persist with a cold for most of the winter.

Decided to give up getting it and have been healthier every year since even though I've undoubtedly been exposed to flus in that time.

With the covid vaccine gemerally giving a much worse reaction than the flu vaccine, it leads me to ask why should I take it? Just to be part of a national box ticking excercise isn't a good enough reason to me.

Especially when as you say, who do we give our sick certs to...

I was getting the flu every year in my fifties so started getting the vaccine and haven't had a bad flu since until early 2020 and there's a suspiscion that that actually was Covid, that it was in the country before march 2020

30000 walk in vaccinations over the weekend, great to see such uptake.

OH has flu like symptoms for the last week so went for a test yesterday,

she's probably still recovering from the bad reaction to the vaccine