At the daily press conferences in NSW, deaths are parenthesised by age and “underlying health conditions”. We are being indoctrinated into believing that these deaths are happening not to healthy young people – the economically productive, important, “valuable” members of society – but rather to the old, the weak, the infirm.Credit:The dead wood, in other words, for whom it would be crazy to jeopardise the success of the economy, or even interrupt people’s pleasure-seeking.
The Scandinavians, living by forest metaphors, categorise these people as “dry tinder”, that fragile underbrush accumulated on the forest floor and ready to combust, waiting only on the inevitable spark. The narrative is compelling in its implied imagery and quasi-Darwinistic simplicity: a powerful battalion marches forward, its muscular forearms and resolute jaws redolent of the factory worker on a 1950s Soviet poster.
Producing, living, loving – these are the people charged with fulfilling the social and biological destiny of mankind. Of course, they can carry the infirm and the old to an extent – they are not heartless, after all – but only to an extent. As soon as the burden starts to impinge too much on the progress of the Great March Forward, it is time to shed sentimentality and with it those unproductive elements that hold “us” back.
She has had frequent hospital admissions with diabetic ketoacidosis and suffers a number of diabetic complications. Rest assured, however, that if she should catch COVID and die she would be compartmentalised at the daily press conference as “a 20-year-old woman with underlying health conditions”. The fact is that
and more than one in five of us are over sixty, so it is a nifty trick to get us to believe that these people are all somehow “other”. They are not, theyIt is a further cynical fiction that soon the rest of “us” will be able to circulate like vaccinated super-beings, impervious to the virus as it scythes down the weak, the infirm, the old. The examples of Israel and other highly vaccinated countries, which are reimposing restrictions hand over fist, show this to be blatantly untrue.
Wersula GladysB is a cold blooded killer CovidVaccine
PetraAu The eyes have it🤔
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Speak for yourself, I am in peak physical fitness
My 98 yo grandma with cardiovascular disease died today of of heart attack. In GladysSpeak she had underlying conditions that caused her death so it's okay and I'm okay to laugh about it. So I can move on and everything is fine. InsensitiveBitch GladysFail
As an aside Dr Chant not looking very happy in the direction of GladysB
She's practiced...just keeps reciting like a parrot.
Yes, the fat, unfit, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smokers, heavy drinkers, unhealthy eaters. All of these issues can be treated by changing your lifestyle. But being everyone doesn’t mean it’s ok. It’s not supposed to be the new normal.
I question the sense of doctors whose livelihood is dependent on the public purse yet r critical of the moving economy that provides it. It’s old news that age & obese related disease contribute to severity of covid yet this seems to be new info for the author. Where have u been?
Absolutely correct. Sick of the spin. Sick to death of the spin.
We are expendable as long as the wheels of the economy grind on... auspol2021
Dr Berger really has insight re covid…..if only we had people of this calibre in Canberra🤨
Great article. I am one of the over 60’s. My life is precious to me, as is my 23 yo son. We are not dispensable so that someone can go on a holiday. What a selfish lot we are. 😢
Are any of these underlying health conditions related to blood clots induced by vaccinations? I have had both shots of AstraZeneca and feel great
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The correct response to people with underlying health conditions being more susceptible to dying from COVID is to preferentially vaccinate them not victim-shame them when they die. vaccinerorts
Would you trust the NSW Premier with your childs life. She says it will be safe for children to go back to school whilst she lets covid rip, do you believe her?
Yes, most functional doctors I know say these days it is hard to find anyone over 40 without UHC. That's also due to now declining health spans and life spans and intelligence, skyrocketing chronic diseases and infertility (est. to hit zero by 2045)...
Those with self induced underlying conditions should be vaccinated & locked down for their own safety while the other half who on a daily basis eats well & exercises so they stay within the healthy weight range deserve freedom. auspol COVID19Aus
Those with self induced underlying conditions should be vaccinated & locked down for their own safety while the other half who on a daily basis eats well & exercises so they stay within the healthy weight range deserve freedom. auspol COVID19Aus
Just more victim blaming from Gladys and Co.
This is very good (speaking as someone with an underlying health condition). Well done
…the economy - as the writer says - then why is Australia still locking down 12 million people and stopping the economy - oh, it’s because it values the lives of the elderly. It’s a BALANCE dear author
What a ridiculous argument “all the economy is is movement of people for profit” - no. The economy pays for our schools, hospitals, infrastructure and gives people jobs, careers, purpose to do things they love in life. Travel, renovate, eat out… if all that seems to matter is….
One of the biggest contributors to covid deaths and vunerability is obesity. Yet no one likes to talk about it. Studies have shown Upwards of 70% of people in intensive care are obese
Could an astute journalists PLEASE ask Dr Chant what kind of illnesses are the underlying health conditions of those deceased? Diabetes? IGA deficiency? Autoimmune issues?
Beautifully said. I am 36 with asthma. I am also very fit and have a resting heart rate of 55. I’m what most people would consider very healthy but could be said to have an underlying health condition.
Stop being a dope. Underlying health conditions vary from mild to severe. It is the severe ones that are a worry. With the elderly and the frail even a weak underlying condition can be the main cause of death, not Covid. I am old and bordering on frailty.
Newsflash: The older you are, the more likely you are to die
So all the school sports days, all the healthy cooking episodes, amount to naught. Next will come a FAT TAX.
Yes, a point I have been making for almost 2 years now.
Agreed. You can’t justify that people should accept the vaccine and then isolate the few with underlying health issues. Note: Air pollution and water contamination can affect everyone. GladysB
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