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Originally Posted by Pierre
The vaccines still prevent serious illness. If you're infected it'll probably be no worse than a cold or a usual winter chest infection that most people bat off with Lemsip max strength and a bottle of covonia - just carry on with your life.
Otherwise, there would be no point whatsoever in getting vaccinated if you're going to hide away in isolation because you're scared of catching COVID, even though you're vaccinated.
Likewise, if we're going to shut everything down at the first hint of a different variant, as a precaution, especially now in a highly vaccinated population. The disease is still a mild disease, with a vaccine (even with a % of vaccine escape) it's even milder (plus the 3rd dose goes someway to mitigating that escape) or won't even affect you.
There's no need to be cancelling anything, it's over reaction by all respective governments so they can be seen to be something to avoid criticism from a rabid media.
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I’m not disputing whether vaccines largely prevent serious illness or otherwise. Only pointing out that a tiny fraction of a large number of infections could easily cripple the health service - and a large number of absences in other essential services and supply chains can also have wider economic impacts.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
They base it on worst case scenario modelling from the likes of Neil Ferguson, that has been consistently incorrect at every turn.
I’d rather employ JFmans to do predictions, at least he has got at least one correct!
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Let’s see when Boris bottles it on Monday if I can get that up to two.