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LurkerJ on 17 December 2021
I feel like the UK was heading towards another lockdown with or without omicron floating around, but to soften the blow, there needed to be some media buzz about a new variant. Why not just stick to the actual numbers of hospitalisations and ITU admissions? the capacity of the healthcare system is the only a metric that should be used to justify lockdowns, not some variant that we'd be only so lucky if it infected everyone spreading natural immunity and only causing a mild infection.
