Only 2 diseases caused by a virus have been eradicated by a vaccine. I thought you were a doctor?
Smallpox and Rinderpest.
Do you know how long it took to eradicate smallpox, technically 2000 years but the official WHO backed vaccination program started in 1967 after 10-15 million people had contracted the disease. The last known natural case occured in Somalia in 1977, that's a ten year vaccination program. WHO declared it officially eradicated in 1980. There are only two sources of smallpox left on the entire planet, one is on a lab I'm Atlanta, Georgia and the other is in a lab in Russia.
Oh and I've had all my vaccinations thankyou very much, as have my kids. Try again with the baseless accusations, as I've said previous, the mask is slipping.
Been quiet for a while now as I believe the argument on here has deteriorated to the point where no one is listening.
To address a few things you mentioned earlier:
- A lockdown would make it MORE likely people will get appropriate treatment for non covid illness. Currently hospitals are having to open up extra wards and turn surgical wards into covid wards. ICUs that are required for appropriate high risk surgical treatment are becoming full of Covid cases.
- It is only the Covid cases that need oxygen that are being admitted.
- To continue all elective surgery/treatment you would have to choose to not treat these people and allow them to die.
- We are currently trying to continue all elective work but it is severely stretched
I think two of your arguments are diametrically opposed.
You could allow covid to spread through society without restriction - this will lead to covid and non covid deaths. I agree that it may mental health burden on the young, but you could argue it could make things worse with the increased stress of family death and illness.
How to best help the economy is also difficult - allowing a slow burn partial opening with continuing high levels of Covid in the community.
Full opening with no social support from the Government would likely mean destruction for a lot of businesses.
In Summary.
A lockdown would be more likely to be protective of those with non-covid illnesses.
Mental health burden of a lockdown is high.
Mental health burden of familial death is high
Mental health services are more likely to be restricted because of high levels of Covid than by a lockdown.
The level of Covid has got to the point that it is effecting medical treatment of other problems in high prevalence areas - we need to consider options to reduce and not forget to support those effected by any restrictions put in place.
Nothing I have said is controversial - I will be interested to hear your options on a way forward