Fear is never a sensible strategy. Truth is the one strategy that should be used, with politicians, scientists and the like not being afraid to say “we don’t know”. Get it wrong in hindsight and explain why you got it wrong and what you’re doing to make sure you don’t make the same mistake.They have been all along, and rightly so early on. Fear was a sensible strategy in March 2020.
The thing is, it worked *too* well.
Could be, but it would be nice if we had some clarification on that. As already stated, her comments could be construed as meaning that Omicron is more deadly than Delta and the other main variants when people on the ground in SA are indicating that it might well be less deadly.Perhaps Harries was meaning the knock-on effect of a huge number of Omicron cases on the day-to-day functioning of the NHS rather than the severity of the variant itself?
Who is restricted or locked away?
You didn’t answer my question the other day.
What can’t you currently do?
It doesn’t actually matter who’s right in the scenario I’ve painted though. If it’s 10‘s of thousands we have more quite a few more deaths and if it’s not, we don’t. The time frame is too short for any interventions to make any difference whatsoever. We are in the classic situation of the politicians fallacy. “Something must be done”. “This is something”. “Thats what we will do”, (even though they know most of it doesn’t work and has not only never been recommended in the past, but actively discouraged).And how many will be in hospital, tens of thousands according to Jenny Harris and very few according to South African doctors? That's the big difference I'm taking from these reports?
London was a joke during the first lockdown, very few wearing masks compared to the rest of the country.big Covid outbreak at my work, massive bash in office and went bar after last week
I must have missed the bulk of the last 2 years and current round or restrictions creeping in lol.
You might have no issues with it, many more do I’d wager.
At least you can go to football or a concert as long as you prove that you are not unclean.I must have missed the bulk of the last 2 years and current round or restrictions creeping in lol.
You might have no issues with it, many more do I’d wager.
What can’t you do currently? 4 households together in Scotland is the only restriction I can see.I must have missed the bulk of the last 2 years and current round or restrictions creeping in lol.
You might have no issues with it, many more do I’d wager.
It doesn’t actually matter who’s right in the scenario I’ve painted though. If it’s 10‘s of thousands we have more quite a few more deaths and if it’s not, we don’t. The time frame is too short for any interventions to make any difference whatsoever. We are in the classic situation of the politicians fallacy. “Something must be done”. “This is something”. “Thats what we will do”, (even though they know most of it doesn’t work and has not only never been recommended in the past, but actively discouraged).
I also find it somewhat distasteful that, after years of systematically undermining the NHS, this government are putting all the ills facing the country at the foot of ‘saving our NHS’. If they’d wanted to save it they should not have kicked it half to death in the first place…