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Originally Posted by leesa
Has anyone given any thought to how this will affect their retirement? At 60/70+ years of age you're ripe for a bad outcome from the virus. The flu already knocks off a lot of our oldies so once covid becomes endemic we're going to have even more elderly deaths. To the people who feel safe now because they're young and healthy... it's still going to be around in 30 years and waiting for you. Work hard all your life to enjoy your retirement. Perhaps all 6 months of it.
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From a Government perspective it is the perfect assassin, picks off the unhealthy who are a drain on the health system and the elderly who are a drain on the welfare system.
Either way, the money spent on saving us from ourselves over the past 2 years will be repaid in the above mentioned benefits saved down the track.
Those who want to enjoy retirement will need to give serious consideration to how they care for themselves between now and then.
Age will have little bearing on it, when the sum of multiple comorbidities is added to a dose of Covid the result will be the same regardless of being 50 or 80.