Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:55 am
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@johnm there's a 1 in 20 chance of long covid (e being poorly for 8 weeks) and of that subset only a very small sub-subset will experience the worst symptoms. @skydriller is correct, there's little risk to worry any random individual if they are numerate. You'll hopefully agree since you are always keen on people understanding numbers and science.
Trying to encourage people to get vaccinated with ideas like long covid or your passport to the pub and Ibiza is, quite simply, another face on the Project Fear gorgon. Maybe try treating people like adults instead of children will have better results.
For instance, this morning we're being treated to the announcement that you can holiday abroad this summer if you pay for a £120 PCR test per traveller. With tests at the destination that's a grand or more on an all-inclusive family holiday in Benidorm.
The trouble is that industry says the tests cost about £2. Even with additional logistics costs and the usual public-sector-inefficiency-tax, it's hard to see the announced cost as anything less than more Project Fear to discourage people from travelling abroad this summer because of the costs and worry about quarantine.
Obviously, if you happen to be relatively well off and superannuated with plenty of time to kill on return you might see it all as perfectly reasonable.
I do wonder if the real "covidiots" really are the folk sitting at home, frightened, hurling insults at regular people trying to get on with their life after being told that the vaccine they just had is the exit strategy.
Trying to encourage people to get vaccinated with ideas like long covid or your passport to the pub and Ibiza is, quite simply, another face on the Project Fear gorgon. Maybe try treating people like adults instead of children will have better results.
For instance, this morning we're being treated to the announcement that you can holiday abroad this summer if you pay for a £120 PCR test per traveller. With tests at the destination that's a grand or more on an all-inclusive family holiday in Benidorm.
The trouble is that industry says the tests cost about £2. Even with additional logistics costs and the usual public-sector-inefficiency-tax, it's hard to see the announced cost as anything less than more Project Fear to discourage people from travelling abroad this summer because of the costs and worry about quarantine.
Obviously, if you happen to be relatively well off and superannuated with plenty of time to kill on return you might see it all as perfectly reasonable.
I do wonder if the real "covidiots" really are the folk sitting at home, frightened, hurling insults at regular people trying to get on with their life after being told that the vaccine they just had is the exit strategy.
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