The total numbers are only a part of the picture. The more significant part is how many of them are sick enough to need hospital treatment simultaneously. Right now, we have doctors and nurses all over the UK on the verge of nervous breakdowns because of the sheer number of cases they’re dealing with, and the number of people dying under their noses every day.
It is nothing short of absurd that we’re still arguing over the severity of this pandemic when our screens are full of the hard evidence.
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
Or i observed it was released after a very short test period.
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You observed the same numbers of test patients and the same duration of trial stages. You also observed the various stages overlapping, and production commencing before final trials were complete. This was a risk, because had any of the prior stages thrown up any serious issues, they would have to have discarded the subsequent work and start again. It was a risk only taken because of the emergency. A drug company operating under normal commercial rules wouldn’t do this. Fortunately each stage of the trials went as hoped, and the drug companies have been able to supply the product they had already made, once the trials concluded it was safe.
But you already knew all this, because you’re an observant sort of person. Aren’t you?