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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
You can't get long flu but you can get long Covid though.
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When they say “live with it like the flu” and we say it we mean fundamentally different things. When they say they plan to not publish daily figures it’s because figures in the low tens across an entire population are meaningless. At the point of vaccine maximisation the chances of meeting an infected person with prevalence that low is near-zero.
The chances of a vaccinated person catching Covid reduces the chance of infection even further, with a greater chance of asymptomatic infection, lower risk of hospitalisation, death and onward transmission.
They don’t mean 150,000 or more people getting infected per week is acceptable.
When they say they won’t report daily testing figures it’s because the effective monitoring will be hospital admissions. If half a dozen people rock up on the same day to the same hospital you’d quickly find that area and region back in SARS response mode - test, trace, isolate etc.