What applied then, also applies now: the vaccine is the only real weapon against corona, certainly in anticipation of powerful virus inhibitors. It is the backbone of a policy that should also include good ventilation in buildings and an efficient testing and quarantine approach, although these can be classified under until further notice under wishful thinking.
Without an even broader national vaccination program, too many patients will continue to end up in intensive care, and our health care system will continue to crack at its seams. It’s like going fishing with a net with a hole in it: the fish keep escaping. By the way: will SARS-CoV-2 infected and seriously ill vaccine refusers also refuse those anti-corona pills, because they, like the vaccines, have sprouted from the labs of that evil and unreliable pharmaceutical sector?
The fact that until recently only a few distant areas had introduced general vaccination requirements, our federal prime minister used as an excuse to reject that idea in our country. But now that Austria is already imposing the corona vaccination, and more and more prominent politicians in Germany want to follow the same path, it is much less easy to laugh.
We are corona suckers.
However, it does not bode well that the mandatory vaccination for health workers in our country – a no-brainer – has already evoked so much resistance, and even briefly became a divisive issue among our top politicians. A trade union that speaks threatening language and politicians who turn their backs are spoiling the debate. That promises for later, because what if someone would think of for example, just like in the US, to force officials to get vaccinated?
Of course, a very driven fraction of the population will never bow to an imposed vaccination. They will have to take the brunt, and see their social and professional lives drastically curtailed, until the fight against the coronavirus is won and covid-19 will hopefully be relegated to an annual, seasonal illness that can be efficiently contained like the flu. . Hopefully that will be the case next year.
In any case, it is clear that the approach to the pandemic needs to be more tightly managed. It has often been shown in this crisis that we are really not good at developing a sense of urgency: see also the delay with the booster vaccine, which now really has to come very quickly for the entire adult population. It is not exactly a bolt from the blue that the effectiveness of our corona vaccines wanes after a handful of months, and so must be boosted with a new shot. Whether the government will have the decisiveness to eventually announce mandatory vaccination is highly questionable. In the meantime, we continue to muddle through with corona measures that have been bugging everyone for a long time, and that make us all a gang of corona suckers.
What applied then, also applies now: the vaccine is the only real weapon against corona, certainly in anticipation of powerful virus inhibitors. It is the backbone of a policy that should also include good ventilation in buildings and an efficient testing and quarantine approach, although these can be classified under wishful thinking until further notice. many patients end up in intensive care, and our healthcare system will continue to crack at the seams. It’s like going fishing with a net with a hole in it: the fish keep escaping. By the way: will SARS-CoV-2 infected and seriously ill vaccine refusers also refuse those anti-corona pills, because they, like the vaccines, have sprouted from the labs of that evil and unreliable pharmaceutical sector? That until recently only a few distant areas had a general vaccination obligation introduced, our federal prime minister used as an excuse to reject that idea in our country. But now that Austria is already imposing the corona vaccination, and more and more leading politicians in Germany want to follow the same path, it is much less easy to laugh at. provokes so much resistance, and even briefly grew into a divisive object among our top politicians. A trade union that speaks threatening language and politicians who turn their backs are spoiling the debate. That promises for later, because what if someone would think of for example, just like in the US, to force officials to get vaccinated? . They will have to take the brunt, and see their social and professional lives drastically curtailed, until the fight against the coronavirus is won and covid-19 will hopefully be relegated to an annual, seasonal illness that can be efficiently contained like the flu. . Hopefully that will be the case next year. Anyway, it is clear that the approach to the pandemic will have to be more tightly managed. In this crisis it has often become apparent that we are really not good at developing a sense of urgency: see also the delay with the booster vaccine, which must now be introduced very quickly for the entire adult population. It is not exactly a bolt from the blue that the effectiveness of our corona vaccines wanes after a handful of months, and so must be boosted with a new shot. Whether the government will have the decisiveness to eventually announce a vaccination obligation is highly questionable. In the meantime, we continue to muddle through with corona measures that have been bugging everyone for a long time, and that make us all a gang of corona suckers.
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