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Originally Posted by Mick
You keep going on about ifs and buts. But if we learn to live with the virus, like every other illness, no needs for isolation, majority of those catching it will be asymptomatic. And with omicron it’s not causing a surge in hospital admissions or deaths.
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London hospitalisations have increased 30% in a week where the current omicron epicentre is. I’ll be willing to bet that’s going to increase, probably significantly in the next 2-3 weeks
If we choose not to isolate when sick and symptoms are as you say symptomatic. What happens to the immunosuppressed living their lives. What happens to front line medical staff who are infected and go into their place of work with clinically vulnerable people?
We’re both talking ifs and buts as neither of us can see how this definitively ends. I guess it comes down to your personal appetite in terms of risk aversion.
We’ve been able to find money for wars & other nonsense such as HS2. We can find money to support businesses (which I don’t disagree will need considerable support.)
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
It'll become routine like flu. At the moment there are too many headless chickens running round with knives in their backs.
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Just because people have a differing opinion to you, doesn’t make them ‘headless chickens running round with knives in their backs’
It will eventually evolve into something weaker, however there’s no guarantee that each subsequent variant will be weaker than that last until such point as it becomes endemic and no less deadly than a cold. The Spanish Flu tells us that, as does studies into virology in the animal kingdom.