There is good data indicating that the new strain has mutated to be highly transmissible but very much less pathogenic.

Many of the patients in hospital in SA who have covid are in for other reasons and its only because its standard practice to test everyone admitted. The few that are genuine primary covid are largely under 50 totally unvaccinated.

Actually this new variant may be the best outcome of all, even better than the vaccine in some ways as it will produce herd immunity.
However I don’t mind the government being cautious

As they say even though a very small percentage of the population may get severe symptoms the numbers can still be large spike.
The doubling every two days could potentially mean that all of us will be exposed in the next 4 weeks, all 70 Million plus illegals !
No I’m not concerned
I just take my Vitmain D + K2 to boost my immune system