zico wrote:Itsallaguess wrote:
The evidence shows the new variant is not tending to affect older, vaccinated groups, [Hancock] says, emphasising the importance of getting the vaccine.
I'd like to see the evidence for this. Seems to be way too soon to say this.
Quite a concern that 85 local authorities have 5 or more cases of the India variant - so not just Blackburn & Bolton.
Way too early to know what will happen, but in the words of the local giving directions to a stranger "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here".
If the Indian variant turns out to be a turbo-charged Kent variant in terms of infectiousness, but with a largely similar broad-outcome in terms of how seriously it actually affects people, then so long as hospitals can cope with the situation, we might actually be able to shorten the overall distance to 'herd-immunity' that we would have had to travel with the Kent variant anyway....there's no '
magic' way out of this - we either get
vaccinated, or we
get it.....
There seems to be a large focus in the media regarding how dominant the Indian variant is becoming recently, but we had the same media panic with regards the Kent variant too, if you can remember, and we were actually coming out of that situation rather well until this new variant turned up, so again - if the issue turns out to be 'infection-rates' but
not particularly 'serious-outcome-rates', then the situation may well be manageable, and from all accounts that currently seems to be the case....
But then, if you're calling Hancock a liar for taking his position on this above, then I suppose we'll just have to wait and see how things play out from here, but currently, it seems that the Government are allowing those in society who are most susceptible, but who have chosen to take them up on their offer of vaccination, and those who are at low risk without vaccination, to take advantage of some well-deserved lowering of restrictions, and it seems that there are many who agree that we can't all sit idly by whilst we wait to convince those who have been offered the vaccine, but have chosen not to take the offer....
Here's what 3600 people who voted in a recent Telegraph online vote thought, when asked '
Should the lifting of restrictions be slowed down to protect people who refuse to be vaccinated?' -
Source -
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-covid-india-variant-uk-vaccinated-jabs-indoors/The public have seen the efforts that the Government have gone to in order to get us into a position where we can regain some of our long-lost freedoms, and from the evidence above, there seems to be very little appetite for waiting until the last vaccine-hesitant person in the country is persuaded to change their mind....
I'll say again though - if anyone is still concerned about the situation, they are completely free to personally continue as best they can under any of the previous lock-down processes, if they choose to do so and if they are still that concerned.....
Cheers,
Itsallaguess