Your chance of dying is relative to your age, your chance of long covid affecting the rest of your life is not. Over 60 and your chance of dying from covid unvaccinated climbs above 20%. For all ages your chance of long covid affecting your work or lifestyle is up to 30%, the chance of severe side effects 7%. That is from the many actual studies out there, not ill informed commissioners or news paper rag jobs.
Ok but - banning drinking and smoking would have a 10 fold (or more) better outcome on both personal health and reduction on health care requirements over a longer time frame.
But that is the reality of our situation.
And those who choose to not alleviate it by drinking & smoking will just make it worse.
Numerous minority groups have tried to ban both, it didn't work, why, because people like drinking and smoking and in the past form the majority of the population. The smoker population is still at least 10 times higher than any anti vaxxer population. You live in a democracy, get used to majority rule. Being a minority sucks ass, especially when your minority causes perceived harm against the majority. The majority sees alcohol related deaths and injuries 'well I enjoyed life, paid my taxes get lost', the majority see an anti vaxxer as an uneducated morons that are making us live longer in lockdown and spreading a virus that kills us. No one really cares about the stats etc, they just follow the rules and can't see why 'idiots' go against it causing the rest of society more harm.
Australia is a democratic society with socialist morals. That means we vote, but we plan for the greater good of the community not the individual. Some individual rights are of course necessary to protect those that innocently do things we may not like morally and so on, but they have to be proven not to affect the 'greater good' in any negative way. This is the reality in which you live. This is why court rulings and policing have statements on decisions like 'In line with community expectations'.
And before you start talking 'sheeples' etc. The anti vaxxers are still sheep from a different herd, otherwise they wouldn't bleat the same mantra and ideology. Just their herd is much smaller and slightly less intelligent
