COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion
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Soldato
Cold virus is very similar?! I catch cold at least once a year and had flu once. Bed ridden for 2 weeks.
Soldato
How is it similar?
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You chose to not get jabbed, those Ukrainians were forced from their homes
Given your attitude and apparent lack of empathy for refugees all I will say is ahahahahaha tough **** for you
Caporegime
In that you can catch it multiple times a year, perhaps?
Caporegime
Which is odd, given the reason they want to go there.
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To be honest most people wanting to go places "to help" generally just end up getting in the way and would be better placed helping from where they are, seems really odd to complain that people displaced from their homes because their country was invaded are given a pass yet wanting to go "to help" them some sort of cognitive dissonance
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Caporegime
You know nothing about this.
Soldato
Just give what you would have spent on travel to a charity, or if you know them direct to Ukrainians.
The inability to travel where you want is on you.
Edit: not passing judgement just stating what you would have known anyway for at least 18 months.
Caporegime
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You want to go to Germany to help your Ukrainian friends but you can't because you chose not to get the vaccine and are upset because millions of refugees who literally were forced out of their country are allowed into Germany without a vaccine so it somehow makes you entitled to get into Germany when you can probably help your friends just as much from UK
What am I missing ?
Caporegime
I have already given 9k to help.
The difference is being able to go and help in person rather than from another country.
Very laudable but the reason you can't go and help in person is through your own action, or rather inaction.
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I do apologise as I'm sure your intentions are good willed but you're just going to have to suck it up, complaining about it isn't going to change the fact you can't go and you must appreciate how it seems strange trying to compare your situation to the refugees, you made a choice, they, not so much
Ha, you're trying to make sense of all this. Problem is that you speak as if government responses to covid have been proportioned, measured and sensible given its risk profile, when they haven't.
When this chap has caught covid in the not too distant past and this "acceptable standard" isn't based on science, you have to wonder what they're up to. His immune response is likely now more robust than it would be for someone who has only been vaccinated (yet they would be allowed entry to some of these places) and him getting vaccinated would be taking a small risk of adverse effect but for practically no additional benefit whatsoever.
Don't thank the vaccine, thank the omicron variant, which has very mild symptoms (as observed first in SA with a very low portion of vaccinated individuals) for broadly providing an exit route to all of this. This is particularly important to consider given that existing vaccines based on early-strain targeting have really quite crap efficacy against omicron. Go check some of the more well instrumented countries case and death rates.
Soldato
Checks watch. Yep. Still Frother Friday 
Rightly or not it's been obvious for a long time you'd have the best chance of overseas travel by getting vaccinated and @The Running Man could have been vaccinated long before he caught COVID.
Checks watch. Yep. Still Frother Friday
What does that even mean