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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
Deliberate or incompetence ?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59629916
Boris due to give press conference regarding booster scheme later.
Interestingly according to the article level 4 implies social distancing continues, but apparently no new restrictions are to be introduced.
I wonder if that scale was developed prior to vaccines and hasn’t been updated ? |
We already increased the restrictions on level 3, not by much but we still did. At present, considering reports from SA senior medics are
still saying it's generally mild (though still not enough data here) and that we do really still need to keep as much open as possible (people will risk assess themselves naturally) and not jump in too hard for it to be a false alarm (whilst at the same time not presuming it's too mild to matter).
The vaccines do still protect, and yes it was developed prior to vaccines, but it's about the circulation of the virus and certainly there are signs Omicron can take over from Delta and is rising quite quickly even though the overall numbers aren't.
Key point here is the scale is just the CMOs' assessment of the situation in the UK and that it doesn't bear any resemblance necessarily to the actual situation with restrictions. In fact I'd suggest we should already have been on 4 since May.
Boris is apparently going to tell us nothing new. Those of us in the 30-39 group who just keep trying the NHS site to book our boosters have already done so...