98% of people who have tested positive/had Covid have very mild to barely any symptom whatsoever and thus recover without a problem.
The other 2% is people who require hospital help, small part of that ICU.
This means that there is NO need at all to vaccinate the masses from health and safety point of view as 98% barely even gets sick and simply gets well again.
That says it is a HEALTHCARE problem because they aren't happy with the number of people they get.
But... the numbers in ICU are not higher than usual. The problem is cuts in healthcare and half the beds of ICU being gone. It's not a Corona problem at all.
Back to those 98%... would Covid be a totally new very potent virus we would not see so many people barely getting ill from it.
Research shows that antibodies in humans against Covid already existed before the pandemic!!
This likely happened because viruses also cross, mutate and so on. So this isn't 100% new to the human body. We already have antibodies in our blood against this. Which is why so few get seriously ill or don't recover.
This means there is NO NEED to vaccinate, certainly not the entire world population. Experts say it'd be better to vaccinate people with high risk.
Another research shows that 75% of people on ICU due to Covid are men with a BMI above 25.
So if they'd vaccinate slightly older men -above 60- with BMI >25 we could go back to normal life. Doing that -provided it works- would reduce pressure on ICU by 60%.
Biggest reason we are in lockdown is to not pressure hospitals and healthcare further. Quite insane as 98% of people with Covid don't require it.
My personal thing... if this would be about relieving pressure on healthcare, they would not spend billions on creating a vaccine and mass-vaccination of mankind. They'd not do that.
So what is the reason?
Also, if you see a graph of the normal death rate of 60+ people of non-Covid causes and overlay it with the Covid death in this age group you see that it's barely worth mentioning. A very small percentage, a few percent only.
Source: all coming from a clip with professor Schetters, virologist and immunologist. If you wish you can watch it with English subs via the settings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYrilwwf70&ab_channel=BLCKBX
This seems to me to be promoting the 'Herd Immunity' philosophy, do nothing, saying, let the Coronavirus run through the entire population, no need to develop a vaccine or to vaccinate everybody if you do. The fact there would be very high numbers of deaths seems to be ignored, because most people will survive.
Here's some facts about the numbers in the UK. and World wide.
Here in the UK Even with all the lockdown measures and restrictions, over 4 million people have caught Coronavirus, many of all ages suffering a long term illness, and more than 120,000 people have now died as a result of becoming infected. see the figures here.
http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Listening to the Coronavirus briefings from government and government employed experts here in the UK. These figures would be far worse if there were no interventions to reduce increasing rates of infection, this is why we have all had to suffer the lockdowns, to stop the spread and SAVE LIVES.
Most people hope the vaccines will both give them protection from the virus and reduce the further spread of this deadly disease as the lockdowns have done so far, all to minimise the numbers of deaths. It is the vaccines that will reduce the numbers of infections and deaths, and they are already shown to be doing so here in the UK. This will allow us all to return to some normality in our daily lives if all goes well.
Edited by
Duttoneer
on Wed 02/24/21 08:03 AM