Just out of curiosity - have you had any people you know be affected by the virus?
I had a cousin - all of 19 years old, and a semi-pro Croatian footballer - get struck down by the virus; his lungs shut down, and he was dead two weeks after getting the virus.
One of my mum's best friends has been in a medically-induced coma for a month, due to complications that arose from the virus.
Does the media and government exaggerate the story a bit? I'm sure they do - they all have their own agendas.
But I've seen first-hand (or, rather, second-hand) what this virus is doing to people, and I just don't believe the level of cynicism that suggests that people are putting money and/or power over people's safety.
I think that people are self-centred, at their core, and it's certainly plausible that this whole scenario has been overblown.
But I've experienced too much to dismiss it as a simple case of overly-hyped influenza.
Sorry to hear that mate very tragic indeed but I never said that the virus is a hoax or that people don't get sick or die from it.
However a fit 19 year old contracting it and dying from it 2 weeks later is very rare, at least in this country where our standard of care is much higher then many other nations and we don't have the hygiene issues of many 3rd world countries.
In regards to your mums best friend(I genuinely hope she recovers and without any life long health issues due to it) but just wondering does she have other health issues that may have also compromised her immune system, how old is she and is she here in Australia?
This disease is very real, but overwhelmingly most 99+ percent will recover or be asymptomatic so it is very strange for you to know 2 people that have been so tragically and badly affected by it.
No I don't know anyone personally that has been afflicted by the disease and maybe you are right that to imply that maybe if I had my opinion would be different. Who knows, maybe so, but I still would believe that lockdowns don't work and that we should have responded way better then we did. I would probably be even more pissed off that drugs like Ivermectin have be largely ignored by our Government.
The one saving grace is that the latest strain, the Delta strain, is much more infectious, but not as damaging or lethal, so maybe it, as most viruses, is burning itself out and will eventually go back to not being an issue at all like previous Covids.
