12-12-2021, 08:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2021, 08:32 PM by backsidebaggie.)
(12-12-2021, 07:34 PM)baggy1 Wrote: I think it’s pretty clear that no-one wants any more lockdowns which is why there is so much frustration at those not wanting to get jabs, which is the only reason we will be facing any more lockdowns. The only thing that has worked effectively en masse are the vaccines, without them we would never have come out of a longer on/off lockdown. People seem to forget the all-death numbers raised 15% in 2020, forget about the long term health problems of covid and the knock on of having hospitals full of covid patients meaning less treatment of the other illnesses and the longer term hit on those.
You’re correct BB that people tend to largely ignore the other impacts and simply feel that we are through this now. 6k in hospital at the moment taking up vital resource from an exhausted NHS, 80% of those unjabbed.
https://fullfact.org/health/dr-hilary-lo...0-percent/
36% unjabbed according to this.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...pdf#page35
Page 31 onwards has some numbers to crunch. Clearly the vaccine has an effect reducing serious illness and hospitalisation. However, it’s not as significant as the government and media suggest from what I can see. Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong.
5% of beds taken up by covid patients I’ve read (not sure if that’s true). Is that particularly huge for respiratory illnesses at this time of year? Genuinely don’t know.
As you’ve said with your stat analysis, the hospital numbers don’t seem to indicate things are too bad.