(07 Sep 2021, 10:39 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I think it's due to the fact that the link between cases, hospitalisations and deaths is nowhere near what it once was. If an extra 10k deaths results in an extra 10 deaths a day (insert the obligatory every death is sad statement here), is it really worth bashing on about it? 

At the end of the day, lockdowns were only there to 'protect the NHS'. And, assuming things scale linearly, even if we double the number of cases, we would only be at half the number of hospitalisations that there were in December/January (obviously there would be other implications with double the number of cases, like increased risk of spreading etc.)

It's going to be interesting to see the data coming in from Scotland with regards to the link between cases, hospitalisations, and deaths following the return to school.

Obviously with the re-introduction of mass testing there is going to be an uptick in positive results, but seeing how that translates into higher hospitalisations will be interesting considering it looks like (to my untrained eye) the cases started to increase around a week before the schools went back, with both cases and hospitalisations increasing on the same date (13th August). In the past there has usually been a delay between the two. It's been a good few weeks and deaths have yet to really increase by any significant margin, but obviously analysing this kind of data isn't my speciality (and I've had a glass or few of Lidl's finest)

In my personal opinion I don't think the majority of people are making their decision based on that level of detail. They're not looking in to it that deeply. I reckon it's simply a case of "if I don't have to, I'm not going to". Of course, everyone is different but I do think it's as simple as that in a lot of cases.

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