Quote Originally Posted by WBA1955 View Post
Last year we were all told to get double jabbed and life would return to normal, eigh**** months down the line we are no better off than then. Masks social distancing and another jab required and probably another lockdown in January.
What have these jabs done to stop the spread of Covid? This was the reason we had them.
For a highly intelligent man you do ask some daft questions time and again Des.

The jabs are to mitigate your chances or becoming seriously ill and needing hospital or the ICU department.

I honestly can't believe that this is having to be repeated time after time, why can't people get it!?


The potential problem with Omicron is that it's infection numbers are doubling every two days so if today is 100,000 infections, two days later you have a further 200,000 infections and the day after that you have 400,000 new infections.

Then you quickly move from 2million, to 4 million to 8 million to 16 million to 32 million to 64 million people potentially having Omicron.

Previously we had a few hundred thousand with Covid at worst and a small % of them getting really sick and dying and overwhelming the NHS whilst they suffered and died.

With Omicron, if you have 20 or 30 million people catching it quickly and only the same tiny % get sick to the point they need hospital then the numbers are catastrophic in terms of handling capacity.

10% of 20 million is 2 million, 1% is 200,000 people, 0.1% is still 20,000 people needing hospital Des.........our NHS couldn't cope and that's if only one in every 1000 Omicron sufferers get really sick.

I understand the maths......its the transmission rate of Omicron which is the scary thing, not the virulence of this strain.