The reasoning of "hospital capacity" for lockdown this year holds just as valid every flu season in Québec, when hospitals are usually above 110% capacity, with peaks over 135% capacity.
The emergency hospitals that cost hundreds of millions of dollars were never used, and the government just said they would triage and let people die if an hospital reaches 200% capacity.
Not a word about deploying this temporary hospitals we already paied for.
Just cue a few interviews with doctors and nurses begging for a break at "the war front" and lockdown the nation for weeks and months every year. Every year some doctors and nurses get stressed and overworked. The population surrendered its basic rights, we aren't getting them back.
Edit : Remember "two weeks to flatten the curve and save the hospitals" became "9 months+ of draconian lockdowns are worth it to save even a single life" even when it became clear hospitals were coping fine almost everywhere, and everywhere with smart use of patient transfers to low-charge hospitals.
Yup, the UK is at this point in the middle of another set of lockdowns. However, the government hasn't even bothered to work out what they want this current imposition upon me to accomplish. They're just locking down for the hell of it.
I'm not even kidding. One of the notes on the legislation behind the current set of lockdowns is "We didn't perform an impact assessment". We're now at the point of faith-based policies imprisoning the population of the UK, and I'd like a discussion of my rights, because I've recently found out I don't have any. Rights that can be taken away at a whim by government - and I don't know how else to describe imposing a lockdown because "fuck it" are not actually rights, are they? They'r'e permissions. I'd like a discussion with someone about getting some rights, unless we're deciding that Westminster is just a Gothic-architecture Politburo.
Yet another "Look, you've already given up your rights for covid, so let's just ... not give them back!" article?
The reasoning of "hospital capacity" for lockdown this year holds just as valid every flu season in Québec, when hospitals are usually above 110% capacity, with peaks over 135% capacity.
The emergency hospitals that cost hundreds of millions of dollars were never used, and the government just said they would triage and let people die if an hospital reaches 200% capacity.
Not a word about deploying this temporary hospitals we already paied for.
Just cue a few interviews with doctors and nurses begging for a break at "the war front" and lockdown the nation for weeks and months every year. Every year some doctors and nurses get stressed and overworked. The population surrendered its basic rights, we aren't getting them back.
Edit : Remember "two weeks to flatten the curve and save the hospitals" became "9 months+ of draconian lockdowns are worth it to save even a single life" even when it became clear hospitals were coping fine almost everywhere, and everywhere with smart use of patient transfers to low-charge hospitals.
Yup, the UK is at this point in the middle of another set of lockdowns. However, the government hasn't even bothered to work out what they want this current imposition upon me to accomplish. They're just locking down for the hell of it.
I'm not even kidding. One of the notes on the legislation behind the current set of lockdowns is "We didn't perform an impact assessment". We're now at the point of faith-based policies imprisoning the population of the UK, and I'd like a discussion of my rights, because I've recently found out I don't have any. Rights that can be taken away at a whim by government - and I don't know how else to describe imposing a lockdown because "fuck it" are not actually rights, are they? They'r'e permissions. I'd like a discussion with someone about getting some rights, unless we're deciding that Westminster is just a Gothic-architecture Politburo.