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Old 28-06-2021, 13:34   #6050
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
It's not just about hospitalisations. The more the virus is allowed to swirl around, even with asymptomatic cases, the more chance of a new variant emerging that one way or another, could be more serious. On the other hand a new variant might be more innocuous. Do we want to take the risk?


Vaccinations in general don't give protection immediately after infection. It takes a few days for the immune system to get going. The idea is that it is fewer days than the natural course of immunity, and hopefully avoid reaching the infectious stage.
So the vaccination programme is a total waste of time then.

Sorry, nomadking, I don’t buy it. The public will not accept never-ending restrictions on their freedoms and it simply isn’t necessary any more. We’ve lived with germs and viruses since humans first arrived on this planet. It’s a bit ridiculous to start worrying about them now and hide ourselves away in fright.

We will become a nation of risk-averse hermits if we carry on like this!

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
It’s clear by now that the question HMG has always been interested in is at what level can covid be allowed to circulate through the population without overwhelming the health service. A bald figure representing number of infections tells us nothing about the likelihood of unlocking occurring on 19 July because we no longer know what the correlation is between infections, hospitalisation and death. The reason we no longer know this is because of the vaccination programme. The whole point of the delay is to gather that data, not to drive infection numbers down. Had the intention been to reduce infections by population control measures, we would have been back in lockdown by now.
Although we can already see that the ratio between infections and hospitalisations has improved significantly, even before the adult population is wholly vaccinated.
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