"Nobody cares about Covid anymore"

There also wasn't a peep about removing the digital certs until Omicron came along. Leo was looking at them well into 2022 in fact:

Once most of the country had Omicron and could access recovery certs, they were sort of pointless to encourage more doses.

What's Denmark got to do with us?nothing, restrictions were reduced once majority were vaccinated and then omicron finished them off.why the defence all the time about vaccines and government decisions,it just strange.

I have no problem saying vaccines should have ended restrictions but they didn't as the government decided to be too cautious,surprise surprise,but it's obvious that omicron ended them.

Restrictions were lifted when the population was highly vaccinated and subsequent waves weren't correspondingly threatening hospitals and filling ICU's. When that became obvious it's only natural that measures were dropped. Not sure why you try to frame it as a "jig".

Austria had relatively low vaccination rates compared to most European countries, so the govt introduced a mandate to increase uptake. I predicted they would drop it later (which they did)

It was a combination of factors, less dangerous variants being one of them. High vaccinations across populations meant that a tidal wave of cases didn't result in a corresponding tidal wave of hospitalizations/deaths, that was key.

Some businesses never reopened

I still worry about it and will mask in some settings, I think masking is up to each individual

I have noticed that several people have stopped using the antigen kits. At Xmas there were loads of bugs going around and people were using antigen kits to check if they had Covid. However since around mid January I have come across several people with covid like symptoms who haven't tested. They're just not prepared to let Covid interrupt their busy lives. Probably the way things will go.

That has been me over the past few months. We've had a cough make it's way through the family over the past two weeks and I just haven't bothered to test even though we have kits in the medicine cabinet. The only person I'd avoid is my Dad as he has cancer, but other than that, unless I was really knocked down with the sickness, I'm not going to test.

So what you going to do then ?

Avoid your father permanently as you won't take a test ?

Or as with the other poster there I have quoted below , how would you or any one else know if you could be infectious and pass it on to some unsuspecting person who is immunocompromised or has cancer ?

Why would you think that that is a responsible or clever way to behave?

Totally irrational and bizarre posts .

i dont see the point in testng, if i had symptoms of anything, I wouldnt visit elderly relatives and our unwritten work rule is work from home if you are coughing or spluttering

Unfortunately, I have three children, which means I very regularly suffer from symptoms of a cold. If I stayed away from my Dad every time in sneezed or had a runny nose, I'd never see him at all. And he doesn't have much time left, so we have to take calculated risks.

I think there is a difference between passing the common cold to my Dad, which he'd probably suffer from more the unusual given his lowered immune system, but probably wouldn't kill him, and passing covid on to him. He has lung cancer and he's 79. He'd be the classic *elderly, underlying conditions* person that we were always hearing about.

I see your clarification JDD. That was my point to be fair , because people should still be careful and test if they have symptoms or they know they are coming into contact with people like your dad .

I think most people are more relaxed now about it and that is understandable given the high levels of immunity we now have .

I would do a test before visiting a vulnerable family member , and stay away for a few days if I had a cold just to make sure .