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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Why are you so obsessed with government control, Andrew? Stop pulling your hair out about the number of infections. The higher it rises, the more immunity in the country will be strengthened.
The PM has already said that the criteria for measures being reintroduced is whether the NHS can cope, and at present it is, because the vaccines are working.
Mask wearing is not effective. The masks we buy in the shops are not surgical masks, people don’t wear them correctly and those that do can be seen with the masks gapping when they should completely seal the face.
The concentration should be on stepping up on the vaccinations and monitoring hospital admissions and lengths of stay.
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As well as being completely incorrect throughout your post, the best bit is the final sentence portraying these as mutually exclusive endeavours.
Masks don’t detract from vaccines or vice versa. Your fundamental misunderstanding throughout the pandemic is to portray every mitigation as binary, as opposed to compounding and aggregating each other’s success.
That, plus pushing mass infection despite the clear impact it has on the health service and deaths. How many deaths are worth paying to reach herd immunity through mass infection, OB?
It has little to do with Government control and merely a basic desire to avoid further lockdowns. Despite clearly favouring economic outcomes over health ones, you seem to forget that fundamentally people will self-select themselves out of the economy by spending less - working from home, etc. At a time the poorest in society are getting hit with benefit cuts, increasing energy costs and food costs. The last thing you want or need is the generally white middle class spending the next six months to a year on Microsoft Teams. Which they absolutely will.