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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
That’s not what I’m asking, I’m asking you what will happen if you let the virus flood through society, the answer is that masses of primary & secondary health care professionals will be either off sick, or self isolating. both sets would potentially be unable to provide care to either covid or normal patients.
You’re right hospitals haven’t become overwhelmed yet, either in previous waves because we had lockdowns or in this wave because of course there is the lag between infection and hospitalisation. It is interesting however that London’s hospitalisation rate is up 30% week on week where the current epicentre of omicron infections is. I hope I’m wrong but I believe in the next 2-3 weeks we will see significant admissions. Time will tell.
Vaccines were our way out of this until the omicron variant came along, they’re now not as much the silver bullet that they originally were.
Natural immunity is not a protection against reinfection from omicron (or so the scientists say)
Turning to lockdowns, they’ve always been stated that their job was to suppress the spread of infection and to protect the NHS, nothing else. To that end they did their job exactly as was required.
Lastly, it is of course your choice should you wish to, and no doubt there will be a number of people who will agree and act in the same way. However, it appears in general that the British public are acting more cautiously.
Just my 2c
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I will say it again. Lockdowns do not work, this has been proven time and time again.
Natural Immunity is a viable protection. It doesn’t stop you catching it, much like the vaccines, but helps equally & greatly against serious illness.
Sorry but the booster vaccines came out before Omicron became a thing.
So what your advocating is damaging shut downs at every variant and jabs jabs and more jabs galore and sod every other fatal illness out there?
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Originally Posted by Paul
Didnt Wales try a "Circuit Breaker" last year.
Did it really achieve much ? The whole UK went into lockdown anyway.
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And it didn’t stop cases rising at the time either. In Wales cases rose more during their circuit breaker bull shit.. I also remember at the time, they also, idiotically started covering shelves with plastic sheets banning sale of non-essential goods. An egregious act of authoritarian power going to heads.