Well You've Got To Hand It To The Italians.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58590187
....they ain't messing about are they!

[sevenOP]

dannyk13,
very interesting (but many assumptions)

Summary, the vaccine helps prevent death but helps prevent less in the elderly.

[jourdain2]

david small - I already have a hopeless feeling as I type this - some people cannot safely or easily wear masks. One or 2 on this site. Should they be prevented from doing normal things like shopping - especially if they are double-jabbed, gel hands and space as much as possible? Just asking so I can understand what sort of mind wants to create paraiahs out of normal people who are just that bit different.

[douglas9401]

The ongoing problem with the virus is people tripping and falling as they run in circles, hands pressed to faces in terror instead of getting on with their lives.

[burlyshirley]

But that's hard to do douglas with the government threatening to bring in lockdowns, bringing back masks (which they told us a couple of months ago that we no longer had to wear) and passports to get into certain places ! I'm trying my very best to get on with my life, but constantly being thwarted ..

[jourdain2]

Very seriously. We (88 & 72) are just getting on with our lives. We are not running around scared, but happily greeting and chatting to people. O.H. puts a mask on when he goes to the doctor's and I have to accompany him (maskless) to interpret what masked nurse says. Apart from that - we are living normally - so why, oh why! isn't everyone else? We are double jabbed so less likely to die from Covid (which was unlikely in the first place - it's an inefficient virus, only a few % death rate and most of those in older people).
By now the NHS should be able to cope - so that reason goes out of the window.

I can remember a smallpox epidemic/scare when I was small --- now that was a very nasty killer of a virus. Please can people get back on balance before we all live in fear all the time?