RE: UK alert level raised to four due to Omicron13 Dec 2021 09:01
Here, here trouble. Let's remember the underlying message from the government.
We need everyone to get vaccinated (why? contracts, corruption or maybe they genuinely thought they would be enough to win the battle).
Mmm. Not everyone is getting jabbed boss. Ok we'll find ways to coerce them. Ok boss. I'll send out a message that says the vaccine is a silver bullet so people believe they are invincible. That will make people have it. Err boss, there's still tens of millions not having it. Try harder then old boy. Ok boss, I'll give all the ones that get jabbed luxeries like no testing for travel, no isolating. Lady in the corner says "but won't that just aide the spread". Be quiet, this is about making people get jabbed, bodies can pile high, I just want every single person to get jabbed" and I will find a way to make it happen.
Before you know it you have a culture of vaxxed people carrying the virus undetected into planes, workplaces, nightclubs, cinemas. All fuelling the spread whilst pointing the finger at the unvaxxed for causing an already depleted and under resourced NHS system to overrun.
End result = a free flowing mutating virus in a divided country with a still very much under resourced and over worked NHS system. Meanwhile, the top officials are lining their pockets with dodgy contracts and our tax money.
Sounds like a great place to be.