Re: Leftanistan
You're wrong, there's been no over-reaction. Viruses are real and they kill people.
If you look at any graph of the positive tests & deaths there is a total correlation between lockdowns and the rates of infection and deaths coming down. There's a lag in the deaths as it normally takes people time to die, especially if they get treated. There's a lag in infections coming down as once it's at a certain level it will keep spreading.
The hospitals did almost fall over, almost ran out of oxygen and then many more people would have died had we not locked down.
I don't know which rock you were under when this was happening?
The Delta variant is affecting many more younger people, a quarter of the people currently in hospital in the UK with Covid are under 60
At the beginning, in the UK the deaths were underreported as there simply wasn't the testing capacity. More people died of Covid-19 than were reported, this is demonstrated the excess deaths figures. There has been some the other way round since, but look at the excess death figures for 2020/21.
I don't trust anything the Chinese government says about anything, but that's not related to what happened here in the UK If you remember the UK Government was very late to lockdown as they were very sceptical about it actually killing people, but then it did start to kill people and nearly killed our own Prime Minister.
Again, I don't know which rock you were under when this was happening?
How can lockdowns not help in stopping the spread of an airborne virus? To suggest otherwise shows a complete lack of basic common sense.
Most of the population understands all of this and most of the population has had the vaccine because of this.
My wife is a doctor, she took part in the trials of the AZ vaccine in 2020, that's when it was "Experimental". It's not experimental now as billions of people have had it and aren't dropping like flies.
The FDA has approved the Pfizer vaccine, it's no longer on an emergency licence.
There are short-term side effects and risks, but these are demonstrably lower than the risks of getting Covid-19.
Which if you've not had Covid yet, you will get it at some point as it's never going away. Everyone I know who has had Covid says, it's not fun, it's the most ill they've ever been!
It's exceptionally selfish, stupid and misguided not to get the vaccine. There is no valid reason not to get it.