We’ve lost our appetite for restrictions. We’re living with the virus now

for trusting people to stay home when they’re sick instead of forcing their compliance, scrapping mandatory isolation rules will inevitably mean more people with COVID will be out in the community and infecting others.

“Just look at the casual attitude to COVID we have at the moment. That’s clearly the prevailing view across the political and business spectrum and wider society,” Burnet Institute director Brendan Crabb said. Some 96 per cent of Australians have now received two doses of the vaccine and despite the rise of the variants, that provides excellent defence against serious infection and death. We also haveGiven the reduction in risk, rebalancing our public health policy makes sense.

“And people’s risks are not individual,” says University of Adelaide medical ethicist Dr David Hunter. “They depend on the behaviours of other people. So it’s slightly false to say ‘it’s up to you to mitigate your risk’. Because, depending on the situation you’re in, you may not be able to.” What is often forgotten when we talk about “living with COVID” is that some people still face the very real threat of dying. They include immunocompromised children and young adults for whom lockdown has never ended.

Then why do we accept seatbelts, speed limits and drink driving “restrictions”?

Just because people have ‘lost their appetite’ for something doesn’t mean it is the right thing to do. Health policy should be based in reason, not emotion.

More lies. BSMustGo

if you are going to fly BYO air............easy

I love that some people lose their appetite for laws and they just disappear - regardless of their merit or necessity. Personally I lost my appetite for speed limits and drink driving restrictions long ago...

AndrewsMustGo

Nope. Wrong.

This article might have been relevant a year ago

All of these analyses seem to studiously ignore the impact of vaccine and infection-derived immunity in the population, which means that the continued inevitable spread of the virus will have a far lesser impact than it would at this time last year. It's not 2020/21 any longer.

Personally, I’ve never had an appetite for spreading a biohazard that kills thousands and disables on a scale of hundreds of thousands of my fellow citizens. I’m willing to make sacrifices & advocate for your current health even before you lose it.

We will be decimated by long Covid and eventually have a variant that will be vaccine evasive.

can’t really live with the virus if you’re dying from it

I haven’t lost my appetite for anything that protects the vulnerable and stops me contracting a disease which is being clearly shown to jade disastrous long term health effects. Murdoch led rubbish

Who's restricting blankets now? And after everything we've been through in the last 3 years!

We’ve lost our appetite for living with the virus responsibly, and so we are going to make up any old 💩 now.

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