05-11-2022, 04:14 PM
(05-11-2022, 10:55 AM)backsidebaggie Wrote: But the majority of the population were not significantly worried about their own risks pre vaccine.
(05-11-2022, 03:13 PM)backsidebaggie Wrote: I’m not sure they didn’t care. I think people thought if they’re not ill, going round their mates ain’t making much difference. And as cases dropped and dropped anyway through Feb, as it got busier and busier out and about, then the pattern of a wave seemed to play out pretty much the same whether people locked down or ignored it and went out, so more and more did it. It was hilarious when they brought back the rule of 6 as most had been visiting people for weeks at least.
I think most isolated if ill, and went out round family and friends houses if they were well. I was absolutely staggered to read on here people didn’t go and see their family, especially as you could be very cautious and take LFT’s to pretty much make sure you were safe. But each to their own.
Sorry BB, i've used 'care' where you used 'worried'.
And the big problem was especially around that pre-vaccine time was that excess deaths were running at around 5k per week in January and the start of Feb, so as much as they weren't worried they were still spreading it potentially unknown to themselves. During the 6 weeks at the start of the year there were 30k more people that died than the 5YA (thats over 40% higher than normal). It's crass to think that they weren't doing any damage if they felt ok, it was irresponsible at that point in time, there's no other way of looking at it.
Post vaccine is a different story and whereas there were many less deaths the main focus was looking after the, already overstretched and stressed, NHS. It's easy for us builders, office workers, pub workers and similar to moan about our freedoms but there were people watching others die on a daily basis, some of those colleagues, whilst many were off sick themselves.
We're in a much better position now and the only change I would have made this year is I would have hung on with the restrictions until Easter, it just made sense to me to wait out the bad weather. I'll be in the queue for my booster when they dish them out and hopefully we never return to anything like it again.