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Saddened!
Define bad? Those hospital beds would be almost as full this time of year anyway. The change to colder weather does unfortunately cull a lot of the vulnerable every year. Sure Covid is stronger than the flu, but this is just seasonal respiratory ailments topping up hospital capacity.
The real issue isn't covid. It's the lack of leadership and the NHS being the absolute shambles it is. It's everyones favourite fawn over item, but it's useless and on the verge of collapse covid or not. NHS critical care capacity is a scandal. Most hospitals have very little. There was one Doctor on the news the other night throwing out scandalous headlines, "We're at 108% of capacity, EVERYONE IS DYING IN CORRIDORS" etc. He was asked what that bed number was, "38" was his response. I think that was somewhere like Blackpool, you'd get that many every single night in summer when the stag and hen parties are in full swing. The NHS (Not the Government) refusing to treat other patients is also a scandal that the media (Obsessed only with causing political instability) have chosen to ignore. More will die from preventable cancers and other diseases than will ultimately die of this plague 2.0.
Covid isn't going anywhere, it's clear the economy won't stand this much disruption. 10,000,000 unemployed by April at this rate. I don't think many have actually stopped to wonder what that will be like. Society hangs by a thread at the best of times, once more than one in 6 people are desperate, things will go south quickly. 'But we needs to save lives you monster! LIVES!!!!!'. Those people will likely be dead within 12 months anyway.
One thing this whole mess shows is how inept our politicians are. A lot of Labour fanboyism on here as expected, but they've shown they'd have been just as incompetent. Labour were against lockdown, against local lockdown then their leader suddenly out of nowhere begs for a national shutdown because he's just heard the phrase and realises it's the opposite to what Boris is planning and suddenly they change direction, despite saying earlier that afternoon that lockdowns don't work. Their behaviour has also been shocking, more Labour MPs have broken the regulations than Conservatives, which shows how entrenched the 'us and them' mentality is in both parties and there would have been a 'Cummings moment' with Labour as well.
We're deliberately choosing to ruin the lives of 11 MILLION children and consigning around 20 MILLION younger people to probably 20 years of unecessary financial hardship and economic instability. Another generation of teenagers with no realistic prospect of ever finding long term work. For what? To save at worst 400,000 lives, 95%+ of whom will be 80+. The number 400,000 sounds dramatic, it's awful. But there are times when you've got to make difficult decisions in Government and ours has shown it won't make them. Suicide alone will dwarf that number, cancer will cover it many, many times if the NHS is allowed to continue.
But yeah, lockdown, lockdown, circuit breaker, circuit breaker. Must save granny. Lives before futures. Lets ignore mental health and every other illness bar the dreaded, the almighty Covid.