You have forgotten that vaccinated people can still catch and spread covid.
Now we are being told that vaccine effectiveness wanes with time and booster shots will be required. That's new to most of us and should alert you to the possibility that "the science" and our political masters don't really know what they are doing.
I wasnt going to bite again, but seeing the vaccination list that Slim posted, and particularly pneumococcal on that list, has set me off.
Vaccine mandates are to protect us from morons who believe their rights dont come with responsibilities to the rest of us. In Victoria and probably in NSW, the ICUs are under real stress right now. The majority in their are un-vaccinated people. This also applies to wards, ambulances and is impacting everything from minor elective surgery to cancer treatments.
I have mentioned a few times previously that I have had the misfortune in 2019 to see my then 4yo daughter in paedeatric ICU with Pneumococcal Meningitis (from a non-vaccinated strain) leading to sepsis, renal failure and what turned out to be thankfully a minor brain injury. The infection was picked up relatively quickly and she was in ICU within around 24 hours of becoming unwell, although that was only because we fought against her being sent home from the ER earlier in the day. This still involved the emergency button being hit in the hospital, seeing a doctor who gave the diagnosis crying in front of us, an urgent evacuation to the Monash Childrens, a night of not knowing whether our little girl would get through the night, seeing her in an induced coma for close to a week, a ICU consultant with poor bedside manner leaving us thinking she would never recover, waiting and hoping for a small drop of urine to come out of her catheter to show her kidneys were working, her continually trying to rip out her vascular catheter once she came out of the coma, her distress during dialysis sessions, the weeks of trauma and pain for her and for us. Lucky for us it was 2019. In a covid stressed system she may never have got through the triage at ER and instead of dealing with fatigue relating to her brain injury, we may well be visiting her grave (I hope none of you have ever had to confront that concept as a possible and realistic scenario for your kid - we did on the first night in ICU - it changes you forever).
(Just for absolute clarity FF (Folau Fainga'a) the next paragraph is not a shot at you - you are complaining but have stepped up and got the jab) I guess what I really am saying is that if someone is enough of a selfish little child to bitch and moan about having to be vaccinated to protect more vulnerable members of our society, then they should go and get fucked.
It's actually a bit like rugby right now. If you have your own agenda and are working against the team you are going to get benched for the good of the team.