Did your type this out on your way back from getting your booster jab?

Yes, I've always found it to be something just to get on with in the most effective and useful way possible really (a good quality mask) rather than overthink or make a boring identity issue either way. Same with vaccination really. I view it as important, as thankfully do most, but if someone is an ardent anti vaxxer (or decides against for another reason) there's not much of anything that I can do about it. Enough people have got on board that it has made a difference, and will hopefully continue to do so.

To be honest it wouldn't surprise me if the majority of us get the new variant if its different enough, but hopefully we will now have enough B and T cell protection that hospitals aren't swamped should we have another significant wave coming our way. That's all we can hope for really I think.

Edited by BlueJay (02 Dec 2021 10.54am)

I agree with reading contra opinions. Always best to know how others think.

The only "obsessive" I know is autistic and obsessed about a huge variety of things, other than masks. Unable to work, he follows the same routines every day. Perhaps your contacts are too? There is a lot of undiagnosed autism.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Yes I did have that thought, that really we only ever see where we spot something taking hold, not always where it originates.

It does appear that many variants spring up in those less likely to be able to fight off the virus, so logically that could include the unvaccinated more than vaccinated, but also certainly the immunocompromised undergoing cancer treatment, HIV, hell even those on transplant drugs perhaps.

It's hard to tell how many more chapters of this story we will face, but I concur with many and the science that vaccination has and will hopefully continue to cushion the blow of variants and allow us a soft landing if / when we catch it (which will then in turn act as a 'natural' booster but without the worst consequences).

The end game logically should be a variant that spreads very fast and yet is more mild. Hopefully despite the current concerns we will approach something akin to that prior to many more curveballs.

Edited by BlueJay (02 Dec 2021 11.27am)

I spoke to someone this week saying ‘’Omicron is DEFINITELY going to be worse’’ after and during me telling her nobody knows. She then lied that her daughter’s meeting at work had everyone testing positive for Omicron. It’s got to her. The restrictions, not Omicron.

COYP

So what you are saying is that you should just trust the claims of companies?

History is littered with examples where that wasn't a good idea...regulations have certainly disincentivised outright lies but certainly not false claims.

When a company tells you that X pill is a painkiller and you take the product you can directly tell how effective that is....many companies make claims about their products which are less than accurate and the marketplace finds their level through consumer experience.

Are you sure that's not confirmation bias? Ok, sure those people exist but I would say it's a subset myself. I'm unvaccinated and I certainly recognise that there's a threat....though that's something I'd still recognise even after a vaccine.

Then again, unless your immune system is weak the risk to life is low.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Dec 2021 11.26am)

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