“Less severe than initially feared” might as well be the tagline for the entire pandemic.
I don’t know why we’re having a covid inquiry now when it’s clearly far too early to assess the full effects of the lock down.
The data at my office alone is the opposite : every single day we get another notification of 1+ people going off sick with it.
I’m one of the few I know now that never caught it.
I personally know of 4 people killed by it – only one with another major condition
Masks and social distancing were deffo a good thing
*shows we took a big risk and got fucking lucky.
Except for all the long COVID victims of course, who’s lives are now completely fucked.
Its a bit like the vaccine gamble (i.e. putting everything on a swift early vaccine rollout over social restrictions).
Arguably with hindsight it has paid off.
However I don’t think that really changes the feeling that this government effectively gambled with our lives and health. I’m not really cool with that myself. It was a risk that paid off, very slightly, but if it hadn’t? What if the vaccines hadn’t been as effective as they have been? What if a more deadly variant had cropped up? If any of these had gone another way we would have been *fucked* with very little we could do about it.
And this subreddit was moaning about restrictions ending lol
By sheer luck not driven by data or people in the know.
All I know is with vax misinformation, aversion to following medical advice and sheer ignorance. If Vlad were to release smallpox in a uk population centre we’d be fucked.
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“Less severe than initially feared” might as well be the tagline for the entire pandemic.
I don’t know why we’re having a covid inquiry now when it’s clearly far too early to assess the full effects of the lock down.
The data at my office alone is the opposite : every single day we get another notification of 1+ people going off sick with it.
I’m one of the few I know now that never caught it.
I personally know of 4 people killed by it – only one with another major condition
Masks and social distancing were deffo a good thing
*shows we took a big risk and got fucking lucky.
Except for all the long COVID victims of course, who’s lives are now completely fucked.
Its a bit like the vaccine gamble (i.e. putting everything on a swift early vaccine rollout over social restrictions).
Arguably with hindsight it has paid off.
However I don’t think that really changes the feeling that this government effectively gambled with our lives and health. I’m not really cool with that myself. It was a risk that paid off, very slightly, but if it hadn’t? What if the vaccines hadn’t been as effective as they have been? What if a more deadly variant had cropped up? If any of these had gone another way we would have been *fucked* with very little we could do about it.
And this subreddit was moaning about restrictions ending lol
By sheer luck not driven by data or people in the know.
All I know is with vax misinformation, aversion to following medical advice and sheer ignorance. If Vlad were to release smallpox in a uk population centre we’d be fucked.
This sub was so wet for lockdowns.
Nice of the Guardian to admit it.