//NJ but you dont capeeshi any of this innit//
Yes I do “capeeshi” all of that Peter. In particular I capeeshi this:
//BUT it still means the virus has hosts to mutate still
and there is obviously evolutionary pressure to mutate to escape the vaccine//
If I’m reading you correctly, what you are advocating is a strategy of “zero Covid”. This is essentially what many of the “scientists” are suggesting, if only they’d admit it. They suggest that restrictions must remain in place to a greater or lesser degree until Covid (in all its variations) is wiped from the face of the Earth. Since that is never going to happen it means indefinite restrictions. So consider this:
- In the last year some 300,000 fewer cancer referrals were made than the year before. At present people are dying of cancer at a rate fifty times those who are dying from Covid. That rate is very likely to increase as the number of untreated cancer patients become fatalities. Yes, I agree that cancer is not infectious but that is scant consolation to those dying from it. Similar figures are evident for other serious diseases which have suffered widespread neglect by the sawbones during the past year. In this respect the answer to the question “who do we allow to die” which Mr Cummings amusingly displayed from the whiteboard whilst being quizzed in the Commons last week is easily answerable – those suffering from anything other than Covid.
- Some 600,000 people in the hospitality sector lost their jobs during the various lockdowns.
- More than 3m people are still on furlough – most of them because of the restrictions that are still in place. This is costing the taxpayer £3.5bn a month.
- The government is borrowing £1bn a day to fund that scheme and many more besides – again necessary because of restrictions.
There is not a single reason why any restrictions should remain in place beyond 21st June. In fact they should all have been lifted by now. This country has suffered untold damage because of the virus, much of it unavoidable but quite a bit of it could have been avoided. There is no reason to inflict this damage for a day longer than necessary.