Off Topic Covid 19 restrictions have done one

I’m sorry but literally hundreds of millions of people have handled it just fine on their own without the help of a vaccine. A lot of unvaccinated people I know have had it and been fine, many asymptomatic. The only person I’ve known to get truly ill (not hospitalised but not well) was otherwise fit and healthy double jabbed mid 40’s. Now I’m not saying they got ill because they were vaccinated but obviously everyone is different.

However I’ve gone the entire pandemic without getting it is a mystery because I have been exposed to it so much. One of those times sharing a sofa with someone for an entire evening and into the early hours of the morning and that was in the middle of the delta wave before I’d even had a single jab.

I don’t want and don’t think I need any vaccine, I’ve only had it because I’ve been forced into it due to things I need to do for work and want to do for leisure require it.

 

We had to show the pass at the NEC Bike Show - no quick glance either, a proper inspection.

 

I tested positive on Monday morning.

I'm on Day 3 imprisoned in the spare room.

Still working remotely though.



I'm fed up of the constant bombardment of texts, emails and WhatsApps asking me how I am.




I'm a grumpy **** at the best of times.

This isn't helping.

 

How are you?

 

Just been kick out of a motorway service station in Germany. First of all no cooked food for breakfast, so took a coffee and a sandwich, 10 euro robbing gits, then they threw a paddy because i went and sat at a table. Covid rules takeaway only.

 

I haven't been to Germany since the Pandemic started as all my trips have been cancelled for a whole range of Covid related reasons but I can imagine what it's like.


They love a rule to enforce.


And enforce it they will.

 

I have been fairly careful because with the health issues I have it would be very serious, my immune system is funked due to medications .I have taken for years, been hospitalised with infections numerous times.. But the wife has been in proximity to people who went down with covid but she was not affected and didn't pass it on to me. Grandkids had it, best friend of granddaughter had it twice, but despite being in contact with them, ferrying them around in car, was not affected. It is certainly a strange thing. That was illustrated early on in my pub. A group who used to go in after work, all working in construction, were dismissing it as the flu and saying bollocks to any restrictions. Then a father and son in their group came down with covid. The father, a bit overweight with some health problems, was hardly affected, the son as fit as a fiddle was in an awful state, hospitalised and on a ventilator. The attitudes of the others changed pretty quickly after that.

 

Thanks for posting this

 

Sounds like you're a 'super-spreader'.

 

I've been called worse...

 

I think “just fine” is relative, millions have died and many more have long term side effects and complications.
It’s ridiculous that in 2022 there are people who “don’t trust vaccines”, when they’ve literally been saving lives since the 1800s.

 

Well said.

I just can’t see the logic in not taking something developed to help you fight a disease you’ve never had and your body has little idea how to fight.

I wouldn’t trek through the Amazon rainforest in the hopes that my body could fight Typhoid and Hep A on its own. It’s not unfair to have to take those vaccinations in order to go to some of these places because it seriously decreases the risk of illness and death.

 

What if you’ve fought it and won?

 

So you can't get it twice?

 

I’d just beat it again
With one hand behind my back

 

Were you in the SAS?

 

I think the figures presented by officials and the media have lacked quite a bit of detail and robustness, in particular they and the models seem to take no account of the health impacts of the lockdowns and other measures, nor the health issues associated with reduced screening or access to medical help for other issues.

The financial and mental health impacts are liable to be felt for many years, and the focus solely on covid can seem quite selfish and limited.

The lack of confidence in the official bodies and 'experts' in the future due to some of the elements they presented should also be factored in to any impact assessment.

 

I didn't, then again I haven't scanned in for the last two years, security my arse!

 

It’s not about trust, I just don’t want it, and don’t see why I should have had my arm twisted into having something injected into me. Elderly and vulnerable are certainly wise to have it sure but why everyone else? It’s just lazy populist policy. It’s never going to be eradicated so what are we gonna do, jab everyone every 3 months? At what cost? Why not force everyone into having every vaccine?

What about those who have died from it? Were they right to trust it? Are their friends and family wrong to not trust it?

 

Once you’ve had it once your body is already better prepared to face it again than the current vaccines will make you.