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Originally Posted by Mad Max
Doesn't that just prove that they don't work?
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They don’t work if you keep schools open, I think that’s now been proven.
The problem is the country has always decided to walk a tightrope opening up as much of the country as they can while having a tolerable level of infections. This carries it’s own risk - mutation - and now we are seeing a more virulent strain.
While the vast majority of people will not go on to develop severe illness the problem is the virus spreads quickly enough that the NHS would quickly become overwhelmed without intervention. If ONS are estimating that 600,000 people at any one time have it and 24,000 people are in hospital (not an estimate) then there isn’t much headroom for allowing the figures to rise. If ICU hits capacity the number of fatal outcomes will also disproportionately rise.