Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
I'm not so sure about that rA. I understand the sentiment, but if you have faith in the vaccine then it shouldn't be the case, save for new variants and vaccination expiry. Non vaxxers are an issue (whatever their reasons for opting out, be it willful or through ignorance) but if MA's figures are reflected across the globe, then the non vaxxer issue may be quite literally dying out.

Its interesting to see how the issue is being dealt with in US professional sport, where - in NBA, for example - a star player like Kyrie Irving has been sidelined for refusal to vaccinate, and similarly in the NFL Cole Beasley is largely inactive for the same reasons.

I really don't know how it should be handled, but "boycotting the non vaxxers" does seem to be a rising trend which I'm not absolutley sure I approve of.

On the subject of the value of scientific research, I note that scientists have now discovered that dolphins in waters off the west coast of Wales spek (whistle) "with a Welsh accent". Good to see that not every scientific endeavour is for a useful purpose
Sorry GP...I obviously didn’t make myself clear.
I wasn’t talking about the ‘non vaxxers’ who, as a group, I have little time for except in the most exceptional of circumstances.
My point was that MA describes the ‘areas where new cases are highest are the poorest areas of the 4 large cities...’
He goes on to suggest additional factors, but I am just saying that poverty and overcrowding are frequently synonymous all around the world from inner cities to shanty towns.
Overcrowding provides precisely the conditions that the virus thrives in and at the moment the air of complacency, which I sense all around us at present, needs to be replaced by one of urgency to ensure the poorest in society have access to and receive their vaccines.