I was watching a panel of experts (one from U.K. , Netherlands and somewhere else) on some news channel over here and they were noticing the public are getting fatigued with the idea of worrying about covid.
They said whilst the vaccines are less capable than normal of stopping people catching it all together, when people are vaccinated it’s more or less coming across as a bad head cold.
But what we don’t see and what breaks their heart is that - even with Omicron - there are severe hospitalisations from people who were too scared / believed the hype about being unvaccinated and many have died.
They are working on modifying the vaccine for the latest variants but their many worry is that the first line of defence may be waning if people get complacent about the fourth (or any) vaccine and they couldn’t overstate the urgency that we do keep boosting until a longer term solution is found.
There are 2 million people in the U.K. alone severely debilitated with long covid (jobs lost, a shadow of their former selves) and this scares me most - i know a few people personally with it and it’s a really grim change in quality of life.
It was a bit of a wake up call for me hearing this as I have definitely been in the ‘completed it mate’ cocky group for a while having had it in April - but the rates here are absolutley jumping here again as they are around the world - and I’m sat in peak summer cyprus where we are so much more outdoors so not looking forward to winter!
