Sorry folks, i know i am only a rare visitor here these days but the thought of another lockdown, or indeed a continuous lockdown over Xmas is the last straw for me. I don't want to offend, and I totally sympathise if you, your family or friends have been affected by COVID, but the problem i'm having is finding many people who have either had it or know someone who has had it, or indeed, sadly passed away because of it.
You'd think with the numbers they're testing these days being 40 times higher than back in April that the odds would be that we'd all know several people who had had it, yet I spoke to a friend earlier whose wife is a senior nurse in our local Trust. He told me that the number of patients in ICU with COVID is in the single figures across both hospitals. So, despite them testing so many more and the number of positive results being high, the hospitals aren't overwhelmed as we're led to believe.
As a result i'm starting to think that we are actually making a mountain out of a molehill here. It's not the plague we're dealing with, but a virus that has killed less than 0.1% of the population, the majority of whom are elderly, have underlying health conditions and are either in a care home or hospital. Of course there are some exceptions, but on the whole that's the profile of a COVID casualty. So why then, are we locking the whole f**king country down - but not completely, as thousands of children are going to school every day?
We've been told time and time again that children and young people are a very low risk so why are we on the one hand letting 5-18 year olds go to school but not letting 18-25 year olds go to uni or just out to meet their friends? Sorry, but I just don't get it. If my son was a year younger he'd be mixing with a thousand kids a day, but because last year was his last, not only did he miss his A levels, he's also been confined to quarters for vast chunks of the year. As a result he is slowly going crazy. i try and find evidence that this "plague" is just waiting to grab us, but i can't. As a family, we know no one who has had COVID, let alone died from it. You'd think that given it's in the news every day and we're told X more had tested positive a x more have died that we would know at least one person who succumbed to it, but we don't.
As i say, sorry to sound harsh or uncaring. The reverse is true, but i really would like to hear some stories of personal experience that suggest to me that the wrecking of millions of livelihoods, the loss of businesses, the mental health problems and deep recession that will take years to climb out of that we're creating are worthwhile when weighed up against the effects of the virus. Whenever I raise the issue on a forum inevitably someone replies "if your mum had died you'd think differently". Fact is, I wouldn't. i believe that the damage caused from the fall out of lockdowns will have a far worse impact on millions than any virus ever could. but I am prepared to be proved wrong by some of your stories and evidence of where I am missing something in the greater scheme of things.
You'd think with the numbers they're testing these days being 40 times higher than back in April that the odds would be that we'd all know several people who had had it, yet I spoke to a friend earlier whose wife is a senior nurse in our local Trust. He told me that the number of patients in ICU with COVID is in the single figures across both hospitals. So, despite them testing so many more and the number of positive results being high, the hospitals aren't overwhelmed as we're led to believe.
As a result i'm starting to think that we are actually making a mountain out of a molehill here. It's not the plague we're dealing with, but a virus that has killed less than 0.1% of the population, the majority of whom are elderly, have underlying health conditions and are either in a care home or hospital. Of course there are some exceptions, but on the whole that's the profile of a COVID casualty. So why then, are we locking the whole f**king country down - but not completely, as thousands of children are going to school every day?
We've been told time and time again that children and young people are a very low risk so why are we on the one hand letting 5-18 year olds go to school but not letting 18-25 year olds go to uni or just out to meet their friends? Sorry, but I just don't get it. If my son was a year younger he'd be mixing with a thousand kids a day, but because last year was his last, not only did he miss his A levels, he's also been confined to quarters for vast chunks of the year. As a result he is slowly going crazy. i try and find evidence that this "plague" is just waiting to grab us, but i can't. As a family, we know no one who has had COVID, let alone died from it. You'd think that given it's in the news every day and we're told X more had tested positive a x more have died that we would know at least one person who succumbed to it, but we don't.
As i say, sorry to sound harsh or uncaring. The reverse is true, but i really would like to hear some stories of personal experience that suggest to me that the wrecking of millions of livelihoods, the loss of businesses, the mental health problems and deep recession that will take years to climb out of that we're creating are worthwhile when weighed up against the effects of the virus. Whenever I raise the issue on a forum inevitably someone replies "if your mum had died you'd think differently". Fact is, I wouldn't. i believe that the damage caused from the fall out of lockdowns will have a far worse impact on millions than any virus ever could. but I am prepared to be proved wrong by some of your stories and evidence of where I am missing something in the greater scheme of things.
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