Can we all agree that "covid pandemic was a pre-planned conspiracy"?

@zonavar68 I don't know which country you live in but contact-tracing did not work as hoped in the UK, I suppose because it relied on a "smart"-'phone system so is based on pure chance, making it unreliable and self-limiting anyway.

I am vaccinated though, and by booster as well as original doses. I value my health and do not want to risk something that [i]might[/i] not kill me but could develop into long-term, debilitating "Long Covid".

The only ill-effects I had were strange bouts of nocturnal coldness and shivering for an hour or so, and tiredness next day, after the very first; but I reflected that I would be more worried if I'd had no reaction. The following ones gave no side-effects.

@zonavar68 Being older and therefore at higher risk we isolated and masked up, with my wife becoming a virtual recluse, due to mild cognitive inpairment. She couldnt remember the rules, so she stayed home. Once a vaccine arrived, we got it and still get boosted at intervals. (Actually had flu shots this very day). The logic is that ifn we do catch anything serious, a hospital is the worst place to be. So we had best not catch it...😷

@whowasthatmaskedman That's fair - I made a decision not to get jabbed because I don't feel I need the jabs. Other people got them and that's their business.

@zonavar68 If you live outside an urban area and dont mix much I get that the risk is lower...😷

@whowasthatmaskedman I'm rural and people dropped like flies. "No one's gonna' tell me what to do" cost lives.

@Ynotisay Yes. Sadly..That attitude is less prevalent here and people tolerated Lock downs and masks better. And that meant that in my state particularly, the first wave (before vaccines) cost far fewer lives than in most other places..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman I don't doubt that lockdowns, masks, etc. were helpful in some way, but they were so haphazard in application and here in Australia every state was tasked by the federal government to 'do its own thing' even with the jabs. Different rules not just in different states but different regions (local government areas). Might have been more universally accepted had it been a national approach.

@zonavar68 True. And single errors, like a cruise ship arriving in sydney let the cat out of the bag there, when the passengers were allowed to get off the ship and go home. 😷