Devon Red
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Whilst I understand your point, the difference with Omicron is the fact that it's very mild, therefore despite the fact that we are all catching it, hospitalisations and deaths aren't increasing much.It's quite clear now that Ferguson's numbers were absolute worst case scenario plus about 25% for good measure. And the Government's policies were constructed on those numbers.
I'm so angry that now we're now effectively going down the herd immunity route. Numbers are only subsiding out there now because so many people now have caught it. We should've been doing it some time ago instead of playing peek a boo which evidently was fairly ineffective in the long run.
Omicron is the best thing that could have happened to us and most scientists are now saying this is the end of the pandemic, covid will circulate for years of course but won't affect our way of life.
The question I would like answered by the government is, with omicron being so mild and likely to be over with come April, why are 100,000 NHS workers going to be given the boot?