Covid 19 -

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Originally Posted by Metdevil

Wait, you saw that tweet as a reason to think that it's not as bad as people say it is?
2017 Flu figures: 233,000 reported cases, 745 dead. 0.319% of cases resulted in death.
2020/21 Covid figures: 31,000 cases, 940 dead. 2.993% of cases resulted in death.

Covid mortality is more than 9 times higher than 2017's flu figures.

Its this, plus the inability for them to understand that using this as a rationale to open everything up is so fundamentally flawed. If you do you will go from 300 cases a day nationally to 10000 plus cases a day in weeks. Then @ just 1% morbidity we will be at 100 deaths a day a few weeks after that.

The only answer we have right now is getting vaccinated.

Screw the advertising saying do it for everyone else. That wont work here because our population don't care about others. As Paul Keating said something like, "when in doubt, back self interest, at least you know that will be trying."

Put an add up now, "After opening up, we will have 10000 cases a day. Those that are vaccinated will most likely catch it, and will most likely have symptoms like a cold. Vaccination is no good after you catch covid. Those that aren't vaccinated before catching it, well 1% will die. Who do you want to be?"