Coronavirus 5 - Last Blood

[stui magpie]

[Pies4shaw]

Dave, it's a strategy based upon a thinly-disguised eugenics argument, ultimately. Didn't much like it coming from the Nazis, don't much like it now.

It's easily illustrated by reference to earlier comments in this thread. We have a bunch of people (we call them "the vulnerable" to dehumanise them) who are most at risk from COVID. That, it is implied, is their problem and theirs alone.

Jumping from the illogical (and wholly inaccurate) trope that they "will probably die soon anyway" - one apparently leaps readily to the conclusion that they need not be treated with dignity or respect, or afforded society's protection.

Indeed, properly understood, the driving force of that view is that the lives of "the vulnerable" don't matter "because they will probably die soon anyway" - we need not even count their "deaths" because they weren't really properly alive like the rest of us and their deaths might be "deaths" but they're not real deaths. Just "weed them out" with COVID and the rest of us can get on with life. The protection of the vulnerable is not worth anyone else's time and energy. Anyway, if only the fittest survive, it will be cheaper for everyone else in the long run.

It should be called out for what it is. Here's a hint about the interpretation of COVID political rhetoric - the closer our words get to something Bolsonaro would say in Brazil, the more likely it is that we are becoming actual Nazis - without noticing, of course: COVID has left a number of otherwise ostensibly sensible people in the water as the lobsters around them have been gently brought to the boil.

So you think Governments are out to Kill off the Weak so the Strong Survive?

Australian governments? Not deliberately. It's just thoughtless killing, a little like standing on ants.

[stui magpie]

Not thoughtless, not eugenics.

Considered, accepted, collateral damage and i'm yet to read a viable alternative to the current strategy.

[Pies4shaw]

Deaths reported in the last week:185.

Deaths reported in April 2022: 532.

Deaths reported so far in 2022: 4,287.

Proportion of all Australian COVID deaths since the arrival of the pandemic that have been reported this year: 66%.

[swoop42]

My extended family went the whole of 2020/21 without suffering a COVID infection but in the space of a month 2 of my nephews who live and work regionally have caught it while another nephew who lives in Eltham and attends Melbourne University has returned a positive test just this week.

It would appear COVID is now widespread in the community and it's just a question of when and not if you get it.

[think positive]

I managed to nurse junior through it without catching it myself, so that’s good! She just had 1 shitty day! Still a bit tired, but ok, great timing, she got 3 weeks school hols!

[Dave The Man]

So have just about 65 Active Cases and then only 20 people in ICU and 1 person on a Ventilator

[stui magpie]

I managed to nurse junior through it without catching it myself, so that’s good! She just had 1 shitty day! Still a bit tired, but ok, great timing, she got 3 weeks school hols!

I can't work out how I haven't caught it, unless I did but didn't notice.

[think positive]

I managed to nurse junior through it without catching it myself, so that’s good! She just had 1 shitty day! Still a bit tired, but ok, great timing, she got 3 weeks school hols!

I can't work out how I haven't caught it, unless I did but didn't notice.

Yeah me too! I get the sniffles a lot, hay fever, colds, from March til summer! So I wouldn’t be surprised. I don’t tend to be a sook when I’m crook, which is a really good thing, cos I got allllllll the sympathy genes in this marriage! I’ve been running my eldest around for various tests for stomach crap, seems to be almost sorted, hubby for scans and blood tests, it’s high cholesterol, I’m home alone today, junior went to the beach house with friends, hubby at work, no appointments, and I am being sod arsed lazy! I just can’t $@&^# doing anything!

[Dave The Man]

I managed to nurse junior through it without catching it myself, so that’s good! She just had 1 shitty day! Still a bit tired, but ok, great timing, she got 3 weeks school hols!

I can't work out how I haven't caught it, unless I did but didn't notice.

Could Possibly Had it and Never Knew as did not have any Symptoms

[stui magpie]

^

Like TP I have low level symptoms all the time, some days better some days worse but nothing that would prompt me to get tested if I didn't have to.

[eddiesmith]

Same here, every now and then I do a RAT and all clear. But then no colleagues or family have had it either so seems unlikely I’ve had this wildly infectious disease and then not infected anyone…

I had a lot of the Covid symptoms and worse than a lot of people with Covid, but that was due to the Andrews government mandated ‘cure’…

[roar]

^^ We get more than enough propaganda through regular media channels so no need to perpetuate it here. Nobody ever said it was a cure.

[Dave The Man]

XE the new Covid/Omnicon Variant

https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1513880366188220417

[stui magpie]

^

Half the world is unvaccinated, new variants are going to keep coming.

Just follow the health advice (when it makes sense), get your second booster when you can and get on with life. It's going to be with us for a fair while yet.