Absolutely @madpenguin … I’m not sure where the idea that taking precautions such as having vaccinations, avoiding crowds, wearing masks and sanitising etc equates with ‘living in fear’ has come from … the anti-vaxxer Covid-deniers I imagine. 🙄
I’d be a lot more fearful if my OH and I didn’t do those things. 😊
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I don't think taking precautions against anything is living in fear - but you can have extremes in anything can't you?. I don't fear crossing the road, I don't fear flu, I don't fear cancer...but you adjust the precautions you take accordingly don't you? At 3 am , I'm more lax with where I cross roads than I am at 5pm. Since my wife had cancer, I now have flu jabs (I started when my wife was on chemo/ immunosuppresants). If I could take part in the cancer blood test trial I would. Not fear. Similarly with covid - I am totally aware that circa 10% of the UK population dies each year anyway, but if I can help avoid dying next year by doing x or y, I will assess how that affects my life and whether the intervention is reasonable. Is a mask in a closed environment where others are too much? At this point with 30k+ new cases a day, maybe not - and if that helps to stop other airborne respiratory issues all well and good. Not fear, just a judgement call like hundreds of others we all take each day.
I live in an area currently with one of the highest infection rates in the country. Yet in the past 7 days there have been only 6 people admitted to hospital and no deaths. Covid at one time was the highest cause of death in the UK,it is now around 24th so there are 23 other things that could kill you before Covid. In the whole of this pandemic I only know 2 people that have had it (both last year). That does not mean we need to be complacent about the risks but just get it in proportion. I still wear a mask etc in crowded places but otherwise things are back to as normal as possible.
4,565,483 deaths
Source:World Health Organization
Data may be incomplete for the current day or week.
In 2019 around 60 million (60,000,000) people died Worldwide and that was before Covid. Yes a lot of people have died as in a pandemic such as this one people do. This is a virus that will be endemic for a very long time and we are just going to have to come to terms with that. I will take precautions but I will not live in fear.
A rather pointless statistic as we are all born to die.
Its about preventable deaths. How many of the 4,565,483 deaths from covid could have been prevented had the vaccine been available earlier. The average person without health complications does not need to die or live in fear of covid if they have been fully vaccinated.
Take precautions as will I. I fear an unnecessary early death.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
We went to our first theatre modern dance performance since February 2020, on Saturday evening. A small theatre holding about 500. There is also a small restaurant inside and outside. It was chocka block. Entry only with Covid pass, a blast of hand sanitiser and mask. It was very very enjoyable and nice to see the turnout. Yes, we are living with Covid, not with fear.
Here is our new theatre which has been, for the last 20 years, 2 large Big Tops. Yes, quite exciting in the winter when the wind is blowing and whistling through the top of the main tent.
I don't 'live in fear' about Covid, in terms of my own health. I do live in fear of spreading it, and perhaps one of my older relatives e.g. mum getting it, and having a much worse time of it than I would.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I'm also anxious that the NHS not be overloaded. Folk having to postpone life saving treatment because the system is clogged up with Covid patients is something I 'fear'.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Absolutely @Loxley. Can't tell you how cross I get when I hear about life saving treatments and screening being denied because health professionals are all diverted to Covid care and same for life enhancing, pain reducing operations being postponed.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The problem is people have gone from being scared [ not appropriate ], to dismissing COVID altogether, not sensible. The expert modelling groups predict, that we could have up to 2000 hospital admissions a day, by the end of October. Why can't we make mask wearing compulsory again, is it such an infringement on personal liberties? The government are now starting to ignore the advice coming from all the expert groups. This winter could be a very big problem.
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A rather pointless statistic as we are all born to die.
Its about preventable deaths. How many of the 4,565,483 deaths from covid could have been prevented had the vaccine been available earlier. The average person without health complications does not need to die or live in fear of covid if they have been fully vaccinated.
Take precautions as will I. I fear an unnecessary early death.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
If it comes your way @floralies @Busy-Lizzie @Obelixx and @D0rdogne_Damsel it is called "Odyssey" danced by the Hervé Koubi Company. Absolutely sublime.
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The expert modelling groups predict, that we could have up to 2000 hospital admissions a day, by the end of October.
Why can't we make mask wearing compulsory again, is it such an infringement on personal liberties?
The government are now starting to ignore the advice coming from all the expert groups.
This winter could be a very big problem.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border