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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
It's not so much the uptick in infections but the increase in hospitalisations and deaths.
The benefit of applying more moderate measures now is to reduce the need to introduce more aggressive measures later on, with the negative economic impact that brings.
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The point with the latter half is more that people won't support it as much unless there's a clear risk or issue, as opposed to "oh well we'd better put lockdown restrictions back on just in case there's a spike" which won't be supported as much as "so the NHS is full up with covid patients again and can't treat anyone else", ideally, you'd do it as you were about to reach the 2nd but much more towards the 2nd than the first.
Whilst the levels of hospitalisations currently aren't low they are relatively stable (as are the number of new infections) so the time to do anything would be when it's starting to race out of control (if it does) and then targeted measures on the groups who are affected as opposed to everyone is probably better than targeting everyone including vaccinated people and people with natural immunity from having the virus (you could, for example, ask unvaccinated people and kids to wear face coverings again since they're most likely to have and spread covid).