What would you do for a booster?

[vnman]

Tragic for the individual, but insignificant in the grand scheme.

I think you are missing the point. When people (with cancer for example) have their procedures cancelled because there is no more capacity in the hospitals, it becomes a problem for many...if you believe in COVID or not.

[cdnmatt]

Tragic for the individual, but insignificant in the grand scheme.

Is this kind of like the Jews who died in the Holocaust, or something? Tragic for the individual, but insignificant in the grand scheme?

How far back are we going with this grand scheme thing? Back to the beginning of the industrial revolution, homosapiens, the solar system, or?

[dinagam]

What Holocaust?
Nothing compares to the annihilation of native populations around the world brought about by the European colonisers in the name of the evil elements of their false religion.
That's the real grand scheme of things.
I'm sure there are more people who die from the consumption of alcohol and its deleterious effects on the drinkers and people around them than from the current pandemic.

[francois]

What Holocaust?

I'm sure there are more people who die from the consumption of alcohol and its deleterious effects on the drinkers and people around them than from the current pandemic.

About the same, 3 million/year deaths for alcohol and covid.

[arsenal]

"What Holocaust?
Nothing compares to the annihilation of native populations around the world brought about by the European colonisers in the name of the evil elements of their false religion."

They're not native, they just got there first and even that's a 'probably'.

[cdnmatt]

What Holocaust?
Nothing compares to the annihilation of native populations around the world brought about by the European colonisers in the name of the evil elements of their false religion.
That's the real grand scheme of things.
I'm sure there are more people who die from the consumption of alcohol and its deleterious effects on the drinkers and people around them than from the current pandemic.

So now we've gotten to the point that the WWII Holocaust isn't a big deal, because there were other historical events that claimed more lives?

Cool.

[latintopxxx]

what a laugh...as if the natives were holding hands singing kumbaya my lord before the evil white man arrives and taught them to sin.....as if the zulus didint wipe out their neighbours...the aztecs didint pull hearts out of living people....as if attila was white...

[DoubleDutch]

The problem is not covid, but the irrational response. Governments should abolish all restrictions and allow people to make their own decisions.

Speaking of irrational response by governments:

16 Dec 2021.

" France has banned tourists from Britain due to the spread of the Omicron variant in the UK, adding only those with a "compelling reason" to travel will be allowed entry.

From midnight on Friday, people arriving from Britain will be required to show a negative Covid test that is less than 24 hours old, to test again upon arrival and self-isolate for seven days, although that can be reduced to 48 hours if the second test is negative."

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-12-16/...-omicron-surge

[gerefan2]

Speaking of irrational response by governments:

16 Dec 2021.

" France has banned tourists from Britain due to the spread of the Omicron variant in the UK, adding only those with a "compelling reason" to travel will be allowed entry.]

Cases of Covid have risen in the UK at an alarming rate this week. The average number of cases has been about 50,000 per day.
The day before yesterday there were 78339 cases and yesterday thre were 88,376. Cases are expected to reach 100,000 per day very shortly.
I was chatting to a friend the other afternoon for a couple of hours and when he got home he had developed a sore throat and headaches. He tested himself twice and failed the test.. he has since been confirmed infected.
People are really concerned and cancelling Social meetings themselves.
Very unusual for the UK which was beginning to just live with this.

[StevieWonders]

Cases of Covid have risen in the UK at an alarming rate this week. The average number of cases has been about 50,000 per day.
The day before yesterday there were 78339 cases and yesterday thre were 88,376. Cases are expected to reach 100,000 per day very shortly.
I was chatting to a friend the other afternoon for a couple of hours and when he got home he had developed a sore throat and headaches. He tested himself twice and failed the test.. he has since been confirmed infected.
People are really concerned and cancelling Social meetings themselves.
Very unusual for the UK which was beginning to just live with this.

I was particularly pleased to read in The Independent that someone claiming to be the stepson of the only Omicron-related death reported in the UK described his father as an “old man given to conspiracy theories” and (therefore) unvaccinated - what I like to categorise as a “lifestyle choice death”