'the unvaccinated'!
I agree, very concerning way to refer to people. I'm eligible for a flu jab and have had one every year for about 20 years. People have never made such a fuss over whether people have had a flu jab or not, but the covid vaccine seems to be driving a divide in society which isn't helpful.’
@Soybean31. Same here, every year I took a flu jab as routine. I was thought odd to do so as I did not automatically qualify. My reasoning being it significantly reduced the the likelihood of catching flu & the severity. For most years this was so.
However inDecember 2018, & already flu jabbed, I caught the Influenza A that was not included in the seasonal flu jab. We & several people we knew in the UK & Canada were horribly horribly ill for at least 10 days & had post-viral fatigue for 12 weeks. One neighbour was so unwell they kept their front door open in case they needed to call an ambulance. No vaccine is perfect.
Time was, people used to go to work when they had flu symptoms & only stayed home when they were unable to get in, with no thought of staying away to avoid transmission. Remember the cold remedy ads about nothing getting in the way of the fella working in the office?
In the 1990s in the same week my grandmother died of flu, colleagues were coughing & spluttering about the office expecting brownie points. My mother, not one for complaining, had the HK flu in 1968 & was so ill that she thought she was going to die.
I am not playing down the impact of Covid, but every year the seasonal flu made a significant impact on the operational efficiency of the NHS, every year staff chose not to have the flu jab & every year there was a spike in the death rate due to flu.
Our awareness has been heightened & compounded by poor reporting, propaganda & panic to the point where fear overwhelms sound information & logic.
I queued outside my local pharmacy for a pre-booked booster. The pop-in queue ran the other way from the shop door. I & one other person in my queue were the only people out of all I could see who kept a social distance & anti-BBC’s our hands when we went into the shop. No-one else did. The focus is on vaccine compliance, & basic hygiene to reduce transmission seems to have gone out of the window.
As a previous poster pointed out, those not vaccinated are more likely to have Covid more seriously that those vaccinated.
Irrespective of Covid, demand for high dependency/ICU beds varies by the needs of patients. A serious road traffic accident can take up several ICU beds in an area for some time, as can any other event that puts someone’s survival at risk. Are we to judge those people on the grounds that they should not be in a situation where they were injured or became seriously ill?