andrewducker | Interesting Links for 13-09-2023

Pragmatically, logically - surely the cost in lost working time, sick pay, loss of tax income (self employed etc) and medical costs from lots of people getting sick (some long term) HAS to be more than the cost of giving all adults a booster? So it should be a no-brainer. (Even if you don't care about the human misery).

And of course I'd pay too. Anyone with the cash to spare would. I've had COVID (once) and even though it was mild (likely because I'd had 3 shots, but not one for 9 months) it wasn't something I want to repeat if it's at all avoidable.

If vaccination everyone is not being done for "the looks", because it makes it obvious that COVID isn't "over" or "nothing to worry about" then that's both illogical and despicable.

The problem is that the government has agreed (with itself) that "the pandemic's over". So rolling out boosters would be a tacit admission that they were wrong, and if they're wrong about something as screamingly important as "plague's over, people", what else could they be called out over?

They're only bothering with the crumblies and clinically vulnerable because if they didn't a whole lot of people would certainly die at great expense, clogging up ICUs for weeks on their way out. Somebody might notice.

Remember, the current government is a bunch of cynical asset-strippers and neoliberal ideologues as deeoly stupid as Liz Truss. And there's not a scientist among 'em. (I can't help thinking that even Thatcher would have been better at handling this crisis than the post 2019 shower.)

You'd think so! I'd love to understand what the nominal maths looks like.

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