UK Covid death toll

[baggy1]

The problem as I see it Oss is that we have stopped the number of hospitalisations increasing but we haven't reduced them. The decision to implement the 'firebreak' period should have been done when the numbers were low (and starting to rip) in order to keep them low. And until we get a vaccine we would need to keep doing that in short sharp shocks. When we entered lockdown on the 5th Nov there were 10,344 in hospital in England, as of the 29th there were 12,837, if we'd have locked down from a lower number at an earlier date we would now be at a lower number with room to take in more. We don't have that luxury now and are therefore having to enter into the tiers at such a high level that it is effectively an extension of the lockdown.

Labour called for the lockdown on 13th October when the hospitalised number was 3,905 and Sage called for it on the 21st September when the number was 1,381. More dithering by this bunch of morons has cost us in many ways.