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I disagree with your extremism, this world is full of shades of grey as I've clearly shown. Everything is imperfect, but still has value. .

No it is not anything of the sort, you're view is extreme. Most of the things we enjoy in life could be better and only get better when their defects are commented upon. At present with so much excess praise and apologists for the vaccines there's no incentive for change. That's already been...

No it's not contradictory and certainly not a binary decision. Many things in life are both desirable and useful but far from good enough. So we have them for the good they can give but wish for better, so point out what it is we want better. Thus it is with the vaccines. .

There's no need for anyone to personally lose their home asset value. I've secured mine twice by cashing them in and spending the money on enjoying life. Take my current flat: Bought 1967 for £4150 Cashed in long ago for 52% of current value at 72 years old, netting me £73,000, while being...

Ditto, and if a nurse or doctor treating me hasn't wished to have the vaccines, that's fine by me. Just a surgical mask, the protective clothing of their profession, is all I ask. I'm strongly opposed to forcing them to vaccinate. .

But none of them are additional deaths. They've died of Covid rather than the other things that would have got them instead. Perhaps handily the life expectancy increases we'd got used to since WW2 have stalled since the millennium so we've started from a firm base for measuring the effect...

I'm certainly not anti vaccine as I showed by chasing for both my jabs after being missed off a list somewhere and now striving to get a booster somehow. But I do believe the current vaccines deserve critical comment since there's currently no incentive for big pharma to do any better, quite...

Read the last sentence of the post you replied to. Anyway what's wrong with cockroaches inheriting the world? It would be a better place for starters. .

I didn't disagree with that, clearly saying it depended on the individual, and by implication the family line. My quoted objection was to Danidl's use of CERTAIN in capital leters. Clearly that is nonsense as the great majority of smokers proved when they didn't die of lung disease. Do you...

So far it has done the earliest infections, giving proven protection against the Alpha (Kent) and the Delta variants. We cannot forecast the future course of Covid, but history shows we always triumph in the end with our own immunity. If that wasn't true+ we wouldn't exist any more. .

Read the post I replied to, not what you imagined. I was very clearly replying about effects other than death, such as long covid. And they are a tiny minority of those who catch Covid and an even more tiny minority of the population. Fully agreed, and why I post on the vaccines shortfalls...

The Booster saga continues. I've continued to try to get both the booster and a 'flu jab since my last post on this subject, with my emphasis on the booster, but walk-in after walk-in pharmacy have either stopped offering jabs or have waiting lists extending through December. Eventually that...

Emphatically NO, smoking is not a CERTAIN cause of lung disease. I grew up in an era when the great majority of males smoked, typically 20 a day, and at the age of 11 I was a confirmed smoker too, easily afforded with three part time jobs and cigarettes being cheap in the 1940s. My smoking...

You should read my post again, in no way did I treat consequences of infection as negligible, nor did I rule out dealing with them. But that should not be done at such huge cost to the majority of the society. Even the consultant quoted by Oyster expressed his considerable discomfort at...

Using my imagination! .

Tiny minorities who were always very vulnerable to all sorts of other issues. Indeed we must, for example these majorities: The up to 50% who don't want to accept the vaccines. The vast majority who never catch Covid, including those unvaccinated. The vast majority of those who catch it but...

It's the only reliable one. His bias shows in his mention of smoking as a certain cause of lung disease when it's only a contributory factor in certain circumstances. .

I don't think any of it is understandable or excusable. Bristol to London by road is 118 miles, a Roadie could cycle it unassisted in 7 hrs with a break. Possible by car in as little as two hours using about £20 of petrol, or by e-car costing under £7 worth of electricity at daytime rates, or...

Taking advantage of the lack of flying options. One can fly from Bristol to many major European cities, even Berlin, but there are no direct flights from Bristol to London. Optimum way to fly from Bristol to London Heathrow takes 3 hrs 40 mins costing £55, via Dublin! Or slightly faster at 3...

Indeed, I wouldn't like to see him any such public office role. .