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It's a bit amberbiguous :dig:

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One day, you'll actually answer the point being made instead of making derogatory, often unrelated comments on every post you want to argue with.

If you had an answer to the issues I raised, no doubt you would have explained them.

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Daniel Hannon in today’s Telegraph has summed up the position I take on lockdowns, vaccinations and face masks. It’s common sense to me.


‘…of the three lockdowns we’ve had, the one that made the most sense was the second, designed to slow the infection rate while vaccines were rolled out. It cannot be repeated too often that the various prohibitions do not, in themselves, save lives; they simply push the peak into the future. A lockdown must have a purpose, an end point. So, too, must every other form of restriction, from facemasks to pings.’

The trouble is, I think, that some have been scared witless over this pandemic, not without good reason, but are finding it hard to climb down from that high level of fear and agitation.

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You agreeing with a Lockdown Sceptic in the Telegraph?

<shocked face>

:eeek:

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It makes perfect sense. Lockdowns only delay, they do not prevent.

If the waves of infection once lockdowns end don’t prove that, what does?

Australia thought they were being very clever by having lockdowns with relatively few infections, but they are now finding out that unless they get their acts together with their vaccination programmes, those infections will just keep coming back and with their current policy they are subjecting their citizens to a lifetime of lockdowns. The country is becoming like a massive prison.

The riots in Sydney indicate that people are getting sick and tired of this nonsense.

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India disproved your theory. The virus mutated into a more contagious variant and people became re-infected.

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There is a very big difference, Australia vs India and that is obvious, transmissibility became rampant in India and I’d say it’s colossal population had something to do with it.

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I do agree that Australia should have got its vaccination plan together as it can't cut itself off forever.

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No it doesn't, the Delta variant could just as easily have mutated into a less contagious variant.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/coronavirus-strains#1

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But it didn’t….

We’re not concerned about the less harmful mutations.

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Sorry, but that post gave me a vision of 5000 'flying doctors' all merrily buzzing about in their Piper Cubs :D

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But you have consistently, and persistently, been against lockdowns in the UK because of this "logic".

But in reality, because we locked down, we delayed the infections enough to get working vaccines, which have avoided/prevented greater numbers of deaths, infections, and hospitalisations in the UK.

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And what were the odds on that? Get a life FFS.

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Don't, this gives credence to OB's theory that the quantity of people infected would remain the same, only the time period over which they became infected would change. Which, is of course, utter gibberish.