Originally Posted by
KARFA
Well this should be an eye opener to anyone who thought we may actually get out of this pandemic.
These are pre-emptive restrictions, there is no impact whatsoever on the NHS so far based on omicron.
Instead we are imposing restrictions, including mandatory vaccine passports which we have never had before in England and now "a national conversation" on mandatory vaccines because of something which hasn't even happened and may not do. Dodgy variants will appear again in the future so if this is how we are going to react every time be prepared to keep repeating this cycle every few months.
Come on you know that mutations are due to large transmissions. Dodgy variants will not appear every few months if transmissions are down. You do not heard of mutations for endemic disease with low transmissions due to them being controlled (plague, malaria, etc ....). If the pandemic is controlled the cycle will disappear. The big unknown is the animal reservoir, but nothing we can do about this for the moment.