All the people that are still buying into this need to realty get to grips with the data and more importantly the way in which the data is now being presented.
For example: Headline Whitty chart says “64% increase in hospitalisations!!!” When in real figures this was actually a slight increase from 3 in one hundred thousand to 5 in one hundred thousand people being admitted to hospital.
Why the need to shift to using scary sounding percentages that really don’t correspond to the actual situation unless you are trying to justify action you are taking for something that isn’t there?
There are still less people in hospital with covid in the U.K. than there are hospitals in the country and no single hospital is anywhere near to being overwhelmed or likely to be. When have their projection figures ever turned out to be even close to reality?
Even if you ignore all of the doom figures presented last night, over the past few weeks we have been told that 80% of the population are estimated to have antibodies, that the delta variant does not evade the vaccines and that almost everybody has a 99% survival rate. Yet, still people allow themselves to be taken in by the fear. I can’t understand it.
Additionally, this variant was discovered at the beginning of February. According to the government, it is more contagious than the Kent variant. Well the Kent variant was discovered in late September and 2-3 months later we were in lockdown again due to “worrying” growing case numbers. This was also without vaccines existing.
The delta variant has had 4 1/2 months running wild, where are the terrifying numbers, hospitalisations and deaths by now?