| LurkerJ said: 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. |
While I agree that the capacity of the health care system should be the driving force behind defining measures, the problem is that we see the full result on that only a week or two after earlier indicators like number of infection. And the nature of exponential growth means, in this week the number of patients can be doubled without preventive measures.
As medical experts say: in a epedemic situation the most important is early reaction.
