Moriarty
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It surprises me and even disappoints me when people who claim to be on the left of the political spectrum argue Covid is no worse than winter flu (or excess winter deaths and despite the flu jab), statistically, the fatalities may well emerge as similar but both do actually affect the poor and working-class disproportionally and in the case of Covid also the BAME community. In Leicester and now Blackburn etc poorer communities, particularly multi-generation households, are worse hit by Covid, nationally Covid has ravaged low paid workers in the service sector and of course vulnerable residents in care homes.
It is quite clearly a class issue and exasperated by a right-wing tory government which fundamentally believes in the concept of "herd immunity". It doesn't do left-wing causes any favours when the actual left-wing champions that same ideology.
Maybe if the Labour party actually supported their usual voting base, the working class, instead of Momentum and it's radical ideals we would not have a Tory government.
The last election taught us one simple lesson, the majority of people, of all classes, voted against those radical ideologies that have overtaken the Labour party.
Until Labour realises that representing a shrinking, champagne socialist, middle class, mainly white, voter base is doomed to failure and they return to their roots, they will not regain power.
The flu jab, for its vaunted place is actually only 30-50% effective at combatting flu and actually does make some people more susceptible to infection.
As for Herd Immunity, it has been the norm for combatting viral outbreaks for centuries, all vaccines do is artificially accelerate herd immunity.
However, we should not accept an unknown vaccine to easily, we will have no knowledge of long term RNA sequence damage that could be done.
So far most vaccines in development have failed testing because of contamination, inaccurate data logging and side effect inconsistencies.
that's fine if I'm taking it, in my 50's, I haven't got that long left, but to give it to kids.. Not without further testing.