How on earth would you enforce them? A not-insignificant proportion of the public have had enough, and there are nowhere near enough police to deal with regular crime, let alone the inevitable breaches of any further restrictions.
No, it’s such a mild variant we’d be better of using it as a natural vaccine and letting it spread a bit
Lol the BBC pushing out multiple articles going against expert advice.
That’s the thing about locking down too late. The damage has already been done.
You know what some really good ‘tough measures’ would be? Require everyone to wear a mask and get vaccinated. Pity the government would rather half-arse everything.
I don’t think the public will comply. With this government taking us for mugs and being told vaccines are the way out of lockdown/restrictions cannot see any compliance.
The problem with that question is that by the time you have the data to prove action is necessary, it’s likely too late for that action to be effective. That two-week delay in hospitalisations means there’s an unknown element to it, we have to estimate numbers. And the cost to acting early, if it later turns out to be unnecessary, is far lower than the cost of acting late, if it turns out the be needed.
*Lockdown* Temporarily halts the spread of omicron and gives more time for distribution of boosters, infection rates spike after lockdown expires.
*Headlines in 3-6 months* Vaccine’s efficiency in tackling omicron dwindling.*
*Sometime in 2022* New variant twice as spreadable as omicron discovered in Timbuktu.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Have these people learned nothing?
It’s impossible to tell until you get decent quantities of data on the omicron daily admissions, ICU and death figures. Unfortunately, there’s around a 1 month lag between diagnosis and death. That’s why the experts are bricking themselves, because if they screw-up it’ll be a repeat of January.
At the moment data from the middle of last week shows hospital admissions at levels lower than in October/November.
The question is, is a lockdown a proportionate response? The average age of death from COVID in the UK is 80. Life expectancy in the UK is 81. We all know that those included in the death toll in many cases either died from other complications whilst they had COVID or were of great age and were regrettably close to death anyway.
The same thing keeps happening. SAGE models a doomsday scenario, we go into lockdown and no where near the amount of deaths occur, so people think the lockdown has worked. It’s the bear patrol tax on The Simpsons in real life.
Then we have the impact on society as a whole. Our grandchildren will still be paying for this, which is more immoral inter-generational debt. The missed GP appointments, the mental health, the suicides.
There was a point where it was all holding together and people was actually doing it to help each other. Then government officials decided to break lockdown blatantly and then the second wave they are having parties while the country suffered.
Boris and his cronies have taken millions of pounds for themselves and friends through backdoor contracts for covid at the same time partying the money away while laughing at the peasants isolating from family and friends and suffering hardships all for nothing.
The first 3 -4 lockdowns felt worth it because we were holding out for vaccines. Our golden ticket back to a life worth living. We all sacrificed our freedom and got our jabs. This lockdown would be an admission from the government that all that meant nothing.
2 weeks will turn into 2 months or longer. They’ll probably tell us we can have our freedom back next year after a second booster and then lock us up again for winter.
Enough is enough
If you’re in hospital wondering if today is your last then definitely. We’ve happily normalised a plane crash every week without battling an eyelid.
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How on earth would you enforce them? A not-insignificant proportion of the public have had enough, and there are nowhere near enough police to deal with regular crime, let alone the inevitable breaches of any further restrictions.
No, it’s such a mild variant we’d be better of using it as a natural vaccine and letting it spread a bit
Lol the BBC pushing out multiple articles going against expert advice.
That’s the thing about locking down too late. The damage has already been done.
You know what some really good ‘tough measures’ would be? Require everyone to wear a mask and get vaccinated. Pity the government would rather half-arse everything.
I don’t think the public will comply. With this government taking us for mugs and being told vaccines are the way out of lockdown/restrictions cannot see any compliance.
The problem with that question is that by the time you have the data to prove action is necessary, it’s likely too late for that action to be effective. That two-week delay in hospitalisations means there’s an unknown element to it, we have to estimate numbers. And the cost to acting early, if it later turns out to be unnecessary, is far lower than the cost of acting late, if it turns out the be needed.
*Lockdown* Temporarily halts the spread of omicron and gives more time for distribution of boosters, infection rates spike after lockdown expires.
*Headlines in 3-6 months* Vaccine’s efficiency in tackling omicron dwindling.*
*Sometime in 2022* New variant twice as spreadable as omicron discovered in Timbuktu.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Have these people learned nothing?
It’s impossible to tell until you get decent quantities of data on the omicron daily admissions, ICU and death figures. Unfortunately, there’s around a 1 month lag between diagnosis and death. That’s why the experts are bricking themselves, because if they screw-up it’ll be a repeat of January.
At the moment data from the middle of last week shows hospital admissions at levels lower than in October/November.
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-daily-covid-admissions](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-daily-covid-admissions)
The question is, is a lockdown a proportionate response? The average age of death from COVID in the UK is 80. Life expectancy in the UK is 81. We all know that those included in the death toll in many cases either died from other complications whilst they had COVID or were of great age and were regrettably close to death anyway.
The figures are entirely massaged to tell the story desired, just like the virus model predictions. Graham Medley just yesterday admitted plainly that SAGE models what they are asked to model. You can read the whole laughable exchange here: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-twitter-conversation-with-the-chairman-of-the-sage-covid-modelling-committee
The same thing keeps happening. SAGE models a doomsday scenario, we go into lockdown and no where near the amount of deaths occur, so people think the lockdown has worked. It’s the bear patrol tax on The Simpsons in real life.
Then we have the impact on society as a whole. Our grandchildren will still be paying for this, which is more immoral inter-generational debt. The missed GP appointments, the mental health, the suicides.
There was a point where it was all holding together and people was actually doing it to help each other. Then government officials decided to break lockdown blatantly and then the second wave they are having parties while the country suffered.
Boris and his cronies have taken millions of pounds for themselves and friends through backdoor contracts for covid at the same time partying the money away while laughing at the peasants isolating from family and friends and suffering hardships all for nothing.
The first 3 -4 lockdowns felt worth it because we were holding out for vaccines. Our golden ticket back to a life worth living. We all sacrificed our freedom and got our jabs. This lockdown would be an admission from the government that all that meant nothing.
2 weeks will turn into 2 months or longer. They’ll probably tell us we can have our freedom back next year after a second booster and then lock us up again for winter.
Enough is enough
If you’re in hospital wondering if today is your last then definitely. We’ve happily normalised a plane crash every week without battling an eyelid.