So despite criticism, the prime minister looks to actually be acting in the most sensible manner of all the home nations.
He’s aware of the early signs from the Omicron epicenter showing no mass hospitalisation or death, and he’s waiting to see how the variant is initially taking hold in the UK…
You know we’re in a really bad spot when Boris Johnson has made the smartest decisions of all the leaders in the country.
Good to know the man least qualified will crunch the numbers to make the best decision.
What would that fucking idiot know about it. Like giving a dictionary to a chimp.
Like Boris or not, this really makes sense. This is one metric that matters, I’m not saying he has to wait with action until limits are reached, but the trends will make it clear way before that time whether it’s likely we’ll reach them without restrictions or not.
No cmas parties in No. 10 and govt departments THIS cmas, i bet…
This might be too cautious for some of his backbenchers, why not wait a few more weeks and examine morgue data instead?
He’s going to have a real problem here, I’m waiting for the next picture to drop. If there’s another party, he’s going to have to be booted.
Number of people on ventilator beds is actually dropping, many infections are incidental despite the uptick in covid inpatients. Its so contagious light restrictions wont work and hard restrictions are unpalatable. We should able to weather the storm until it burns through us many are having less contact and being cautious anyway.
Johnson in danger of accidentally making the right decision here.
It was probably right to bring in ‘plan B’ and harsher messaging until we got severity data. We now have severity data from the UK, and it’s positive. We also have another 2 weeks of case data from SA and Omicron seems to burn through the population quickly and not result in many serious negative outcomes. Not doing anything more, and taking ‘plan B’ measures off again as soon as cases start to come down, looks like the correct move. And if Omicron really is that much less severe, we can remove the isolation requirements too, since at this point that’s doing more economic damage than the virus itself.
Of course because Johnson is immune to correct decisions we’ll probably find he gets pushed into more restrictions nationwide based on a negative metric in London, at a point where those restrictions won’t have any meaningful impact on Covid transmission anyway but screw over large parts of the economy.
Whilst drinking Chardonnay in outdoor gathering which is NOT a party
Doesn’t look an any further restrictions in England before or after new year. Hopefully people who don’t feel safe to go out will realise they can do exactly that with or without new rules and laws. Bit of personal responsibility and agency.
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So despite criticism, the prime minister looks to actually be acting in the most sensible manner of all the home nations.
He’s aware of the early signs from the Omicron epicenter showing no mass hospitalisation or death, and he’s waiting to see how the variant is initially taking hold in the UK…
You know we’re in a really bad spot when Boris Johnson has made the smartest decisions of all the leaders in the country.
Good to know the man least qualified will crunch the numbers to make the best decision.
What would that fucking idiot know about it. Like giving a dictionary to a chimp.
Like Boris or not, this really makes sense. This is one metric that matters, I’m not saying he has to wait with action until limits are reached, but the trends will make it clear way before that time whether it’s likely we’ll reach them without restrictions or not.
No cmas parties in No. 10 and govt departments THIS cmas, i bet…
This might be too cautious for some of his backbenchers, why not wait a few more weeks and examine morgue data instead?
He’s going to have a real problem here, I’m waiting for the next picture to drop. If there’s another party, he’s going to have to be booted.
Number of people on ventilator beds is actually dropping, many infections are incidental despite the uptick in covid inpatients. Its so contagious light restrictions wont work and hard restrictions are unpalatable. We should able to weather the storm until it burns through us many are having less contact and being cautious anyway.
Johnson in danger of accidentally making the right decision here.
It was probably right to bring in ‘plan B’ and harsher messaging until we got severity data. We now have severity data from the UK, and it’s positive. We also have another 2 weeks of case data from SA and Omicron seems to burn through the population quickly and not result in many serious negative outcomes. Not doing anything more, and taking ‘plan B’ measures off again as soon as cases start to come down, looks like the correct move. And if Omicron really is that much less severe, we can remove the isolation requirements too, since at this point that’s doing more economic damage than the virus itself.
Of course because Johnson is immune to correct decisions we’ll probably find he gets pushed into more restrictions nationwide based on a negative metric in London, at a point where those restrictions won’t have any meaningful impact on Covid transmission anyway but screw over large parts of the economy.
Whilst drinking Chardonnay in outdoor gathering which is NOT a party
Doesn’t look an any further restrictions in England before or after new year. Hopefully people who don’t feel safe to go out will realise they can do exactly that with or without new rules and laws. Bit of personal responsibility and agency.