O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[swaledale]

No, I just disagree with the mantra. And its unattainable. UK will end up with a percentage of unvacced folk, maybe 2%. France may end up with who knows, 20%? 30%? Other countries will have a mix. And then there's the inevitable falloff of takeup on second and booster doses amongst the already reluctant and forgetful/deliberately avoiding/Brexit supporting (yes thats a joke at Swale's expense) folk. And the millions of illegals who you may think you never come across but I'll guarantee are only two or three degrees of seperation from you. So, the mantra IMO is a waste of breath. your individual safety is in your own hands. To me, the mass vaccination is essential because the world has decided it's more ethical to give folk a chance than to just let it roll and and dig a lot of very deep holes. Ironically the pointy heads (in UK at least) were essentially proposing that method in the early days until some intern in whitehall did the extrapolated death number and passed it to a minister

That still does not explain your incredulous "hard to reach we are not on Mars!" comment! And the individual safety being in your own hands is simplistic and shows a deep lack of understanding. As per usual you have failed to acknowledge I might have a point, when I said that efforts can not only be concentrated on those that can or will accept the vaccine, parallel work to get to those unwilling or unable is crucial and necessary.

Not sure why Brexit supporting is a joke at my expense - after all the only reference I made was to some older people wanting the "British" vaccine (which is not exclusively British in any event) and the idea that someone would delay having a vaccine on the basis of where its made - when I very much doubt they worry about where their other medicines come from and they can't know where the batch of the "British" AZ vaccine was made is utterly ludicrous.

As ironic in fact as Brexit and other nationalists fervent support for a "British" Royal family, when they Queen is german and her consort greek, its no more a "British" royal family than the Mini is a "British" car, its european. Ah but then i seem to recall that led to you completely missing the point and venting your spleen on my supposedly xenophobic comments! Ooops you looked a little stupid there - look up the definition of xenophobic and you might understand.

Oh you truly are the comedy gift that keeps on coming.