Quote Originally Posted by Calgarybaggy View Post
This nonsense is exactly what I am talking about - trying to lessen the impact of covid by cherry picking statistics. Like most respiratory tract diseases, Covid affects people with pre-existing conditions more harshly than those who don't. What of it? <ost people over 50 have pre existing conditions of one sort or another. I am 57, overweight, and have moderately high blood pressure but otherwise healthy. Are you saying if I got covid and died today it was because I was 57 and overweight or because I had covid? Yes, high blood pressure will eventually kill me but it would definitely be covid that killed me now. So the use of that 17000 death statistic is, to say the least, deceptive and probably done to make a political point rather than addressing the real health care issue. Its a bit like saying if you take all those who lived in close proximity to rats out of the statistics, the black death was actually quite benign - true but hardly informative.

The majority of Covid deaths are those who are over 50 - overweight - underlying health conditions and breathing issues! Almost all fit and healthy youngsters under 25 don’t know they even get it! My daughter who is 13 had it and did not even have the sniffles but she’s mega fit and healthy! To vaccinate under 16’s in my opinion is pure stupidity and many of the parents that rush their kids to be jabbed follow the herd! It tells you something when many professional parents are those who won’t vaccinate their kids!

Offering the flu jab to kids now is laughable! Most who get colds always get colds and likewise with migraines etc. As my father used to say - get a grip and get on with it - FFS and toughen up!