It doesn’t affect everyone equally, we know who is vulnerable and who is not.
I am talking about wider than just getting ill.
If we just vaccinate the elderly and the vulnerable, then yes, we’d be sufficiently repressing the worst cases among the target populations.
1 vaccines are not perfect so even the vaccinated can still need hospital treatment just at lower levels. The more covid = the more chance of getting it. It’s also a numbers game, even if only 1% of under 65s need hospital treatment that number is huge across a population.
Hospitals needlessly shut down in preparation for an onslaught that never happened. Now many more will die because they didn’t get timely cancer diagnosis because hospitals delayed or cancelled appointments. Absolute disgrace, it should never have happened but I’m afraid they won’t learn
It definitely wasn’t needless. My DH works in a hospital. Wards were full. Whole corridors sealed off as a red zone. Operating theatres were turned into covid wards. The staff were sent daily emails of capacity. It was full for months.
Supply chain issues are not due to sick younger people. When I got Covid, I had to home quarantine for 10 days due to the rules at that time. I was sick for one. We should have just stuck to the whole ‘if you’re sick stay home’ instead of absolutely stupid and arbitrary rules that aren’t proven to work, but are done because public health needs to be seen as ‘doing something’.
So you stay home for one day, go back, spread it and then more people are off? Not just for one day but 5 or more.
You should be angry at the people who did this to you, it was completely unnecessary.
I am angry at the Chinese government for trying to cover it up for so long. I am angry at our governments slow and shambolic response. I am grateful I didn’t get covid whilst pregnant due to lockdown, I am grateful my family remained intact. It was necessary.
Vaccine is good for those who needed it. Sure. But you are complicit in harming the younger generation if you don’t see how unnecessary it all was, you still believe all these sacrifices helped.
The only people complicit in harming the younger generations is people spreading misinformation and half truths about vaccines. When we suddenly start seeing children dying from polio or measles again I hope the anti vaxxers and covid deniers think it was worth it.