well good on you for making a reasonable and intelligent comment in this melee of nonsense bickering.
MTX, I have no personal issue with you or Moggs, who is so averse that I can't imagine him ever having a jab.... you both make your own decisions as I and everyone else does.
yet at the start of the pandemic all the same people were howling like mad dogs for "herd immunity" - "like Sweden" which nation lost a great many of their elderly. now we have the chance to achieve herd immunity the safe way, through vaccination.
as was done with the terrible death that was smallpox, eradication of the virus depends on everyone developing immunity. if you're keen on getting the virus infection method you will need to get sick and risk dying. more than 90% survive thanks to the excellence of our free health care, among the very best health systems in the world, and so you are likely to be left with scarring which will effect your lifestyle and activity, and may even effect your income.
this doesn't give you lifelong immunity though because covid mutates regularly, unlike smallpox.... a new strain of mutations and you're again unprepared.
the vaccine is the safe way to prepare your immune system for the virus.
your choice, but I want to see Aus develop herd immunity with minimal cost to the community or the health system. we need at least 95%..... but this leaves the 5% who choose not to vaccinate as the most vulnerable group in the community.
so don't visit Moggs in Cairns and wear a mask...... oh and please discuss your decision and plans with your doctor.
