Have the media not learnt yet that when you constantly go about things it becomes background noise and people begin to ignore it. Add in the propensity to shout about raises and then quietly mention the drops, it becomes very difficult for people to take the media seriously. Surprised they haven’t called it a crisis.
It’s just general fatigue. We’re on month 19 of the pandemic. Most people are vaccinated. Government is ending support for furlough and encouraging a return to the office for WFH workers. 10% of hospital beds are taken by COVID patients and no hospital seems to be on the brink of collapse.
For many here they’ve done what they personally can (vaccinated, shielded, tested regularly, etc.) yet case numbers remain high. The cynics have noticed that we’ve gone from headlines about daily deaths to headlines about daily cases and pull some conspiracy from it.
UK getting into booster shots? It must be time soon, since UK was so fast with vacvines in the beginning.
But anyway, if the health system isn’t threated with collapse and it doesn’t look like it it, you can live with a death rate on the high side.
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Have the media not learnt yet that when you constantly go about things it becomes background noise and people begin to ignore it. Add in the propensity to shout about raises and then quietly mention the drops, it becomes very difficult for people to take the media seriously. Surprised they haven’t called it a crisis.
It’s just general fatigue. We’re on month 19 of the pandemic. Most people are vaccinated. Government is ending support for furlough and encouraging a return to the office for WFH workers. 10% of hospital beds are taken by COVID patients and no hospital seems to be on the brink of collapse.
For many here they’ve done what they personally can (vaccinated, shielded, tested regularly, etc.) yet case numbers remain high. The cynics have noticed that we’ve gone from headlines about daily deaths to headlines about daily cases and pull some conspiracy from it.
UK getting into booster shots? It must be time soon, since UK was so fast with vacvines in the beginning.
But anyway, if the health system isn’t threated with collapse and it doesn’t look like it it, you can live with a death rate on the high side.