Off Topic Covid 19 restrictions have done one

Proof?

 

Really?

 

I might be over-simplifying this but my view is that the govt's response to covid has only ever been about protecting the NHS, nothing else. Keep people out of hospital using whatever means are available. Whether they succeeded or whether the NHS needed as much protection as it got are moot points.

 

Figures suggest that the same argument holds to some degree with the vaccine.

 

I had sinusitis over Xmas felt like ****e miles worse than when I had covid. Been around loads of people with covid
My lad had it last august and I was in the house with him for ten days isolating
I didn’t get it
In pub Boxing Day three lads sat around table with me all tested positive and I didn’t
I’m desperate to get it and have some time off work ffs

 

One Friday I collapsed in town, took me to HRI in ambulance. Tested me all day because of my cardiac history. Round about teatime they sent me home after messing with my meds and said they couldn't keep me in because they needed the bed in case of covid.
The following Monday doing my excercise round the town again and woke up in HRI. They kept me in for a week and half.
That was just pressure they was under to keep beds empty. I've no complaints with the NHS, they've always been brilliant with me.

 

You surely jest. Do you mean the NHS that they’ve underfunded for decades?

 

The very one. They didn't want it full of thousands of people with covid. The underfunding comment is a bit irrelevant really, we all know that's the case.

 

If they wanted to protect anything or anyone getting people to show a negative test before arriving in the country would be a good idea, and how about after they arrive stay in one place until their negative status is confirmed by another test.

After feb 11th anyone vacinated can just turn up and go where they want.

 

It's always a balancing act though isn't it, the economy vs covid risk. We know it isn't going to go away and right now the pendulum is swinging in favour the economy.

 

That’s true, I’m not disputing the fact that it’s obviously safer to get vaccinated. Just whether it’s really necessary for 95% (or possibly more) of the population to have to, particularly those who have already had it. And if the pitchfork wielding Boris fan club are really justified in shaming everyone into having it, as if somehow you’re a danger to the world and going to be the cause of the next apocalypse.

Whether you’re vaccinated or not you still catch it and you still spread it so what difference does it make to you if the person next to you has been vaccinated or not? People should be free to make their own decision and not be demonised for choosing one over the other.

 

I'd argue they've been fairly well resourced, but very badly managed.

 

Agreed

 

Don’t have the time to argue Dutch, seen far too many boring arguments, so I’ll just give you a like and move on

 

Good man.

 

One advantage of vaccination is that your immune system is exposed to the virus (or virus like component), more than once. This greatly improves the immunological memory, meaning the body is able to respond more rapidly and effectively to the virus.

Immunological memory - Immunobiology - NCBI Bookshelf (nih.gov)

 

Which becomes more academic with a variant.

 

The NZ PM has upped the anti again. They have 9 omicron cases...9!!!... anyone who comes into contact with anyone testing positive has to isolate for 24 days!!!!