aquascoot wrote on Jan 5
th, 2025 at 3:28pm:
if it really has a 50 % CFR, people will take "personal responsibility " not to catch it.i'm sure my wife will mask up at work because she believes in 'personal responsibility"
but no one is going to take your silly covid seriously because they have all had it and it was a nothing burger
Yeah, sure.
"Personal responsibility".
Just like we've seen (and are still seeing) with Covid and the flu, etc.
Bobby can tell you (again) about that awesome "personal responsibility" - he's seen it many times (as we all have) in the shopping centres with (maskless) people coughing and sneezing all over the place.
Even if people were dropping like flies from H5N1 the government and media will remain silent as long as they possibly can and then we'll hear the usual BS... "it's mild", "low risk to the general population", etc.
If the government and media don't say anything then it doesn't exist as far as the majority of people are concerned. Just like with Covid these days.
I'm also sure Mrs. Scoot will only mask up at work if masks are mandated and even then it'll be nothing more than baggy blue surgical masks with a lot of them being worn under the nose or chin.
Or, more likely, it'll be like Royal Perth Hospital where there are still signs everywhere saying masks must be worn but no one wears them and there's no enforcement.
And speaking of Covid... I've booked my elderly aunt in for Covid vaccination number 7 on Tuesday at our local TerryWhite and the lady there was impressed when I asked if they had the latest JN.1 Covid vaccine and not the older, now almost useless XBB vaccine and she said they only have JN.1 now anyway.
I can't get my 7th until April but I'll be booking it in as soon as I can. I'll probably get this year's flu shot at the same time.
The majority of people probably don't even know or care that Covid vaccines are still available and they definitely wouldn't know a new, updated vaccine was available from last month.
Total (deliberate) failure of public health messaging from our governments who still want everyone to forget about Covid even though it is still killing up to 10 times more Australians than the flu and making countless others almost constantly sick.
Disgraceful stuff.