SHsharkbok
Captain23,202 posts
SHsharkbokCaptain23,202 posts
26 Jan 2022, 01:58#3
Now that everyone is vaccinated, or at least offered a vaccine - countries are learning to live with Covid.
Lockdowns are minimal because death rates are much lower thanks to getting vaccinated. Less pressure and not running out of hospital beds.
The US and UK lost control of Covid from the outset by not following the scientific plan of locking down properly to control spread until vaccines were available. Lockdowns dragged for ages, while other countries used more effective contact tracing to eliminate Covid.
Trump was on Twitter telling people to rebel against lockdown, contradicting the Whitehouse official stance, Boris Johnston was having Covid parties.
With Omicron, lockdowns are now useless - but it is fine now because the vaccine and a weaker variant.
People can and will continue to get Covid multiple times. So getting it early on was not a good idea, when it was stronger and no vaccine.