Originally Posted by baggiematt
Restrictions protect everyone, not just the un-vaccinated. It's a great misconception but you are protecting you and your family by sticking to the rules.
If this spreads exponentially, a small percentage of a lot of people can get very sick, even young people. This clogs up the ICU beds and resource. You or a loved one needs intensive care for something you would otherwise survive and you won't if there aren't any ICU beds. The NHS then responds to this by cancelling non-elective procedures and moves the resource to help in urgent care. This leads to delays in treatment for more long-term conditions such as cancer or the routine checkups which keep people alive. Without this, there are then more deaths which involves more people being admitted to ICU. People who would otherwise be alive and perfectly well are not. Morbidities get worse and people have a lower quality of life.
Effective healthcare is essential. This isn't just the 0.5%
In addition to this, this virus is changing which is expected but it means we aren't out of the woods. There is a variant in France which can avoid PCR detection. This means someone can be a super spreader as they aren't well but think they don't have covid. It took a year to get a vaccine and by then it's mutated into different variants. This will only get better when they get ahead of it and model vaccines based on the expected mutations.
Hopefully the restrictions needed going forward will be 'soft' such as mask wearing and some distancing in places and not like the draconian measures in place now. I mentioned in a different thread that this is a community issue not a personal one and I was right. If everyone takes the personal approach and doesn't follow the rules, there will not be an effective healthcare system and a lot of people will suffer.
What’s your guess regarding overseas travel -all go from May 17th or completely on hold?
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