Independent sage: circuit breaker lockdown needed now

[XmasGoose]

I see Independent Sage have said that an immediate circuit breaker lockdown is needed to protect the NHS.

This would involve a total ban on household mixing, all bars, restaurants and indoor venues closing and schools shutting early for Christmas.

Is this needed now to protect the NHS and save lives? Personally I wouldn’t comply with another lockdown.

twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1471160024005324804?s=21

[quote Kokeshi123]SA have mostly done better than U.K. throughout:

"Cases" across the course of the entire last two years doesn't tell us much other than how much testing is going on; the same criteria would tell us that Somalia provides the best example of how to run a pandemic. Recorded deaths are often dodgy too, because of the way things are recorded.

Excess mortality in SA has been really bad during this pandemic, suggesting that deaths from COVID have been greatly undercounted, and are probably among the worst in the world.

This is entirely predictable; middle-income countries like SA have been the worst hit by COVID for most of the pandemic. They are wealthy enough to have large numbers of older and fatter people, and most of their pops live in cities, BUT at the same time they are also not wealthy enough to elbow their way to the front of the vaccine queue or to have loads of spare healthcare capacity.

www.businessinsider.co.za/south-africa-excess-deaths-amid-covid-19-worst-in-the-world-2021-8[/quote]
If we can't trust South Africa's official information across the whole pandemic then why would we base our Omicron strategy on information their officials provide now?