But of course marketing is given a free pass in enabling companies to spread the disease of poor diet, alcohol, smoking... And even excess reliance on pharmaceuticals.And if one person or a hundred or 1000 chose to eat badly and get cancer they fall off the perch.
But if they don't vaccinate against COVID not only do they run the risk of falling sick or dying but they also spread the disease.
On top of that it's also clear that the more the COVID spreads the more rapid the mutations which make it more infectious and potentially beats a vaccine.
There is always a balance between individual responsibility for health vs the overall public health aspects. This was the argument around smoking, .05 driving legislation and public health regulations stopping people from spreading infectious diseases either deliberately or unwittingly.
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I liked this approach to vaccination from a doctor in Alabama.
Dr Cobia works at Grandview Medical Centre in Birmingham, Alabama, the state with the country’s lowest percentage of fully vaccinated people (33.7 per cent).
According to Alabama’s Department of Public Health, 94 per cent of the people hospitalised with covid there since April and 96 per cent of those who’ve died have been unvaccinated.
“I’m admitting young, healthy people to the hospital with very serious covid infections,” Dr Cobia wrote in a heartwrenching Facebook post this week.
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.
“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honour their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin colour they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’.
“But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they can’t. So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives.”
‘It’s too late’: US doctor’s confronting post
As the United States grapples with the surging Delta variant of Covid-19, medical experts across the country are desperately trying to convince hesitant Americans to get vaccinated.www.news.com.au
This might explain it. The Murdoch's are worried...I note Fox is now pro Vax. Sudden shift.
I thought they were pro vax because Trump actually got the thing off the ground. I haven't actually been following the left/right alternating positions.I note Fox is now pro Vax. Sudden shift.
I thought they were pro vax because Trump actually got the thing off the ground. I haven't actually been following the left/right alternating positions.
Seems like parts of that are revisionism, but I'm in too lazy a mood to argue.The Pfizer vaccine was part funded by the German government. Pfizer was reluctant to take US funding because of the likelihood that the whole issue would be politicised. Trump's contribution was to urge a speedy search for a vaccine, which is pretty much what every government and every person (except for anti-vaxxers) in the world wanted.
His stance throughout all of 2020 was ambivalent, being pro-vaccine at times and anti-vaccine at other times. He wouldn't even admit (for a while at least) that he himself had been vaccinated. He is now discouraging vaccination, linking it to some Democrat plot or other.
Fox was equally as ambivalent, but had been up until a few weeks ago very anti-vax. Not so much saying that the vaccine is bad (although some anchors did go that far), but doing their damnest to discourage people from vaccinating, using all the silly arguments that we have been hearing from the most militant anti-vax crowd.
The people who got the COVID vaccine off the ground were the pharmaceutical companies who turned their resources to getting a vaccine developed often in collaboration with universities and government bodies like the CDC who assisted in the regulatory framework and officiating the testing (an organisation much attacked by the GOP).
I'm surprised the numbers haven't budged either way.History repeats.
As Gladys has followed Dan's disaster, each action too small and too late, she will soon have to take the final step which is a hard lockdown for 3 weeks.
I predict she will make the announcement mid/late next week if she is smart or a week later if she still hasn't grasped the reality.
Its will be the last gasp to stop the spread.
Curfew at 8pm or similar.
Big fines for holding private parties and to everyone at the party.
All stores except supermarkets and chemists closed,
Only way to get goods is by delivery or pick up from the store by pre ordering externally,
Cases in the community when testing took place are going up as tracing isn't keeping up, its only a slow rise but NSW is losing the battle.I'm surprised the numbers haven't budged either way.
More plot thickenin'
More like a totally misleading thick clot's posting because it does not accurately reflect covid vaccine data.More plot thickenin'
Well, only really if you're unfortunate enough to be crook already... Or lived a life eating sugar and trans fats to excess.If I read your chart correctly, there was an increase of about 85,000 serious adverse events due to the vaccine, of which about 11,000 represented an increase in deaths. This compares to over 625,000 deaths due to COVID (assuming US only) and presumably a massive amount of serious adverse events (I don't have the data, but one would assume serious adverse events would be a large multiple of the number of deaths).
Things aren't looking too great for those who haven't taken the vaccine.
Well, only really if you're unfortunate enough to be crook already... Or lived a life eating sugar and trans fats to excess.
The rest of us have no need to worry.
More like a totally misleading thick clot's posting because it does not accurately reflect covid vaccine data.
Jesus man, it's everywhere. As I come across it again, I will post.Have you data to back that up?
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