Sorry not sure where I said that it is “just old people” who are victims? I have said that CV is real and nasty in my opinion the effects of these continual lockdowns will outweigh the benefits.

You do realise that over 500,000 people die in the UK every year - this is not to make light of those who have lost their lives with CV but we cannot continue to lock down and be ignorant of the massive damage this is causing.

The advice for those who have had the vaccine remains to wear a mask, social distance etc..

Well I agree that there is a limit to what we can do to limit Covid damage but what we have done so far seems broadly sensible. Personally I would have introduced much more stringent controls early on and definitely not had a Christmas day for two thirds of the country but as always, politics is in the mix of decision making.
The complication of mutated strains has been a factor that has affected the situation in recent months, but the mission was always to contain the virus until a vaccine was available. That appears to have been achieved. Hopefully we can now slowly get back to normality albeit with Covid still around.

I was speaking to a friend who's a doctor this morning.

From the data released by the government

Got some decent covid data again.

The number of patients admitted to hospital is the same as it was on 7th December.

The number of patients in hospital is the same as it was on 20th December.

The number of patients on mechanical ventilation is the same as it was on 5th January.

Seems like hospital capacity is far too high to release lockdown measures next week, and that the number of patients being admitted to hospital is far higher than it should be based over 6 weeks of national lockdown.

This can only make me think that the majority of people getting sick are those who are disregarding the rules.

It think the only solution is now more punative measures. It also shows to some extent that our free* (at the point of service) healthcare system doesn't work.

If people had to pay a little bit for there own health care and paid a bit less in tax we'd have a much better health care system.

I was speaking to a friend who's a doctor this morning.

From the data released by the government

Got some decent covid data again.

The number of patients admitted to hospital is the same as it was on 7th December.

The number of patients in hospital is the same as it was on 20th December.

The number of patients on mechanical ventilation is the same as it was on 5th January.

Seems like hospital capacity is far too high to release lockdown measures next week, and that the number of patients being admitted to hospital is far higher than it should be based over 6 weeks of national lockdown.

This can only make me think that the majority of people getting sick are those who are disregarding the rules.

It think the only solution is now more punative measures. It also shows to some extent that our free* (at the point of service) healthcare system doesn't work.

If people had to pay a little bit for there own health care and paid a bit less in tax we'd have a much better health care system.

People are certainly not expecting a mass release of restrictions in the next few weeks but the messages of "Optimism" have been superceded with "Cautious".
People have just NOTHING to look forward to in the foreseeable future, there is no hope, and do I fear dire,further consequences of protracted lockdown measures.