Seriously? So we close everything down just in case our hospitals have to have patients.
By the way, the number of hospital admissions in the UK for the Omicron variant is also ZERO.

Edited by georgenorman (09 Dec 2021 10.42am)

No I meant really things like nobody in hospital with omicron or it hasn’t killed anybody. Points and objections are fine. Everyone is allowed a point of view. Not when it’s drawing on false rubbish or not what the point is in the first place.

I think attitudes are changing because people are just tired of it all. We were told to follow the science.
Lockdown: stay indoors.
Wear a mask / sanitise often.
Socially distance.
Check in everywhere you go.
Get a jab.
Get another jab.
Get a booster.
All done, and not for a couple of months, while those mandating these measures were getting hold of their girlfriends or having a party.

That's damaging but no....the existential madness was in spending that money on furloughing and keeping people locked up....god knows how long it was.....I still can't quite believe I've lived through a time where people were arrested for having picnics on the grass....for something with an average death of over eighty and under one percent kill ratio.

When I was young the English were said to have a stiff upper lip......in truth it's incredibly wobblily.

Edited by Stirlingsays (09 Dec 2021 1.20pm)

Blackadder Goes Forth

‘’Permission for bottom lip to wobble sir?’’

They do depending on how you project them, which is of course what it comes down to. The SA charts clearly show hospital cases rising sharply but there's not enough time elapsed or data available to determine what is an overreaction, so the only option is to err on the side of caution.

Plus, it can't of been here for a while (if by a while you mean more than 2 weeks) as the case count would have started rising much earlier, if you use the SA data as a benchmark, which you have to, even though it can't be a straight comparison for various reasons.

I get that you'd rather this whole thing have been old and frail locked up while everyone else went about their daily business to prevent rights being eroded (albeit temporarily) but ultimately that's too much ideological and not enough science influencing your standpoint in my opinion. Do I like being mandated? No. But if the general trend and science support it I can make my own informed decision and be happy with it.