Lloyd90
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The issue wasn’t Covid. The issue was the lack of capacity in the NHS.
We wouldn’t have been over run with deaths from
Covid, but we would have been over run with 60+ year olds clogging up Hospitals to the point they were unable to function.
We are already seeing a lot of people complaining that ‘non-essential’ procedures were stopped, and we have an enormous back log.
I have worked in Hospitals and they have been non stop with essential work.
If they have been flooded with old people with Covid they wouldn’t have even been able to do basic proper emergency stuff.
As you say the vaccine has massively reduced the amount of people effected by Covid and the amount of people going to Hospital.
That was the whole point.
The OP and many respondents to this thread conflate the rational and fact-based scepticism about the covid-vaccine with a less rational aversion to all vaccines.
Put simply, a rational position is:
- Most vaccines are proven good and effective
- Most vaccines are neccesary
- Covid vaccines have too many unknowns [#58 above covers it]
- Covid has a 99.98% survival rate , even in the absence of vaccines [UK govt ONS data]
The issue wasn’t Covid. The issue was the lack of capacity in the NHS.
We wouldn’t have been over run with deaths from
Covid, but we would have been over run with 60+ year olds clogging up Hospitals to the point they were unable to function.
We are already seeing a lot of people complaining that ‘non-essential’ procedures were stopped, and we have an enormous back log.
I have worked in Hospitals and they have been non stop with essential work.
If they have been flooded with old people with Covid they wouldn’t have even been able to do basic proper emergency stuff.
As you say the vaccine has massively reduced the amount of people effected by Covid and the amount of people going to Hospital.
That was the whole point.

