BlueKiwi
Jedi Master
I think the purpose is because of the governments negligent under-investing in our hospitals. There are nowhere near enough ICU beds (or nurses) to handle a large influx of people, not enough nurses, and they are severely underpaid and overworked at that.What is the purpose of “keeping it out as long as possible” i.e.,delaying it?
My sister is an ICU triage nurse at an Auckland hospital, and what she sees is this : The majority of people needing ICU beds who have covid are people who already have severe health problems. For example people who are severely overweight. They are the people who "die from covid" (though they would have died from their medical condition in a few months/years anyway - covid just expedited their deaths)
My brother is in Sydney at the moment and caught Omicron. He self-isolated for 7 days and is fine now. He said the symptoms were a runny nose, headache and sore throat for a few days, and he was fine after about 3 days. So the big hoo-haa over it is puzzling to say the least.clear overseas evidence that Omicron is MUCH milder than any of the variants to date
It still vexes me as to why we are forced to get vaccinated even though we may have recovered from covid naturally, and don't need vaccination