I always find protesting an odd thing, not at the occurance or the action just on what it is that sets people off. I further find it fascinating the different stages people are at in their lives and what it is thats important to them. Like prior to the pandemic the main protests that were occuring where against global warming.
Many were sensible in that they sought change then some went over the top and wanted entire industries shut down. We even had a politician from the Greens party stand up in parliament demanding ALL coal fire power plants be shut down NOW!. Imagine if that was to occur, the government turned around and said OK and flicked a switch.
It would cause absolute chaos as hospitals would shut killing thousands, people at home would lose all their food, many would starve if anyone had oxygen tanks they'd fail at breathing.
Of late it's all the anti Vax, anti lock down people taking to the streets and I feel bad for their cause as I understand many are feeling it. These are tough times and we are all doing it tough. Although the people protesting are probably the ones doing it even tougher work and finance wise. I personally don't like it as someone whose partner is a nurse I often get worried if she will contract COVID and bring it home to the kids.
But I also know that the lock downs can not go on forever and in time they will be lifted. For Australia that time is sooner rather than later despite only having 15% of the population vaccinated. Which is no where near the level required but our two most populated cities Melbourne and Sydney are playing a different lock down game.
Melbourne went for hard lock downs where Sydney waited and locked down sections which failed to work and provide any alleviation to COVID19. but I don't particularly think they are all too concerned.
As Sydney is currently becoming swamped with only 220 new cases a day hospitals are already over flowing and people are waiting in ambulances for a room. ICU is pretty much at peak now and not to mention there is a growing cohort of people dieing at home, not even attending a hospital.
I fear that Melbourne will also be in this position in the coming weeks as we had a couple go about their daily lives that were symptomatic. One a teacher and one an optomotrist who had spent the week face to face with clients and children. Also playing soccer and attending a gym. They waiting until the weekend to go get tested by that stage they were pretty bad and now we are in lockdown as Delta has been been strain responsible.
But, Australia will be opening up soon and in what I can only describe as the old adage as Death by PowerPoint our prime minister gave an address how many Australians he would be happy for to die in order to reopen and return to normal.
Furthermore, recently a Liberal National Party member the same party as our Prime Minister also went public on numbers. He values a single Australian life at $AUD5Million and it costs $AUD330 million to save a life. He can not justify spending that much money saving someone's life from COVID.
The message is coming across that people are to get vaccinated and if they don't, they've had sufficient time to do so and the consequences will be on them no one else.
It's quite an unsettling and send chills down your spin article and position. On one hand Australians have a Prime Minister whom is happy to see X amount of people die and members of his party saying that it is too expensive to save someone's life from COVID.
You can read the article
here yourself.
What would you do if this was the messaging coming from your governments leadership? Would you be worried?
