"Nobody cares about Covid anymore"

The CMO is not doing that because of covid. There are many respiratory viruses raging through the country at the moment. This was expected and happens every year. Yet there was no attempt to prepare the health service for this. Any talk of masks is to bail out incompetence and intentional lack of planning.

I recognise a significant number of posters from the anti-mask, anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine and "it's all a conspiracy" threads, so I'm not surprised at all to see comparisons drawn.

With our vaccines, our herd immunity, accumulated knowledge of the virus, techniques for treating severe cases, multiple variants and hindsight it's easy to reach back in time and nitpick.

However in 2020, we didn't have vaccines, we didn't have magic knowledge of the virus, people were dying, it was spreading rapidly, ergo countries all over the world independently decided to take measures to reduce the spread of the virus (to reduce the number of people dying from it) and also to stop national health systems from being overrun. These decisions with made with an open discussion of impacts, such as economic and social.

I had issues with certain lockdown measures, some made on a national level didn't make sense in certain isolated situations, but I understood why they were made. A majority of the public did.

There's a portion of people using this thread to have a go at certain measures they didn't like or agree with. Okay. There's another group with a very obvious agenda, who are having a go at measures for other reasons.

Again, we had masks, social distancing and lockdowns during the 1918 flu epidemic.

I would not have any issues with that at all. It is a personal matter imo.

I interviewed probably 15 people this past year and 2 people came in with their masks on. They removed the masks before the interviews started though.

An overly cautious approach may be perceived by some as an indication of a poor health and projected into the future as a low work attendance.

She should have over 200k followers but Tony took this old Twitter followers with him when he left the job and she had to start from scratch.

I had noticed hospital figures began dropping significantly over 2 days s. I did expect them to rise a bit on xmas day and Stephen’s day due to less discharges.

"Most" got the Omicron variant which didn't happen by accident. Much as you like to think it did. Vaccines are going to make hospitalisation much less likely. Which isn't accidental either.

The unvaccinated are still over represented in those in hospital due to Covid. That is not accidental either.

It still all comes back to the same situation, a shambles of health service that can't cope during winter when its own staff become sick and take time away from work. Our overall population has increased yet I don't see new hospitals being built. Over paid middle and upper management blaming the public when they can't get their own houses in order.

Hospital and GP capacity is certainly an issue.

But countries with world leading hospital systems also had capacity problems with COVID.

But for sure we have systemic problems in our health service.

The covid pandemic stage is coming to an end. Covid isn’t. Covid is here to stay. There will always be hospitalisations due to covid, flu’s etc every winter. Hospitals for covid certainly won’t be hitting 1600 plus like it did earlier on in the year. I will bet we are close to the peak. The holiday period will see a bit of a jump in numbers. There are definitely less discharges. The next week or two will tell. Deaths worldwide are a fifth of what they were a year ago.

I flew to the USA yesterday. Airports were busy and buzzing with planes full of people old and young.. mask wearing practically non existent. People have moved on with their lives except for the usual doomers on the internet.

Hopefully your long term symptoms do subside soon. Due to my work I literally know thousands of people who have had covid old and young and all have fully recovered. Everyone i know ( except for me) has had covid including family members my brother and sister and all their kids and friends. They are all ok.

There seems to be a huge amount of people sick this Xmas. So many bugs going around including Covid. Time to get our immunity up to speed again after all the isolation.

they most definitely care in spain. folks are are still wearing masks on public transport. just saying

Nobody ever said they would stop the spread 100%.

Anyone denying that masks help slow and reduce the spread of respiratory viruses is either an absolute moron or saying things they know to be untrue just to try to win an argument on the internet. There is no third option.

And yet when we dropped the mask mandate earlier this year 95% of us stopped wearing them overnight, so either 95% of us are morons, or the remaining 5% are...why didn't our government provide public bins for us to dispose of our covid soaked masks do you think?