Unlikely as I have my two boys constantly jumping all over me after school days since everything resumed.

I agree though that I'm likely to get covid again at some point. On average people catch the flu twice a decade even with natural immunity due to evolving variants.

Inevitable.....I'll keep an eye on developments.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

And about €400 a week to be unemployed
Ain’t socialism great.

I expect if we fast forward a year most of us will have had it again as older variants provide limited protection against contracting newer, but in a sense the more we catch new variants the broader protection there should be going forward.. At this stage unless it's particularly bad (hospitalisation, long covid-like) natural infect would appear to be inconvenient but useful! I can't see hopsitalisation reaching sky high levels , though appreciate that 10k in hospital with anything at any one time isn't ideal.

I'm sure the most vulnerable and impacted tend to opt for the vaccine anyway, and like the flu jab situation that should be good enough. Interesting that China is still trying to control Covid. They're partially 'suceeding' in keeping numbers low but since 90% of China's 1.4 billion people have been vaccinated they still appear to be putting massive effort into stuck into stopping spread. That is doomed to fail, and you'd think being that they've done all that can vaccination wise with a base of protection this would be the perfect time to just let it work its way through the population, to further boost protection. Instead it looks like they're doing the opposite.

Probably so fixated on exanding the social credit system side of things and keeping the people in line, that it overrides all other considerations.

I fail to understand why, after more than 2 years of Covid experience, people still think wearing masks, respecting social distancing and even having lockdowns is only to ensure you, and others, don't catch Covid.

It just isn't. It's primarily to ensure the NHS doesn't get overwhelmed by trying to flatten out curves.

From all I hear the NHS is fast approaching a real crisis point, yet what I read here are the same old, "it's my body, my choice" arguments.

If we are asked to start being more cautious again, and restrictions are imposed, then it will only be for that reason. We will all catch variants, which most of us won't suffer from too much. It's when we catch them which matters.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Continuing the destruction of the financial future of unborn generations is far more selfish than the individual making their own free health decisions.

Nice threat to Hungary there.....very neo liberal.....'if you don't suffer with us, you are against us'.

Not in my name.

Edited by Stirlingsays (04 Jul 2022 7.16am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)