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Originally Posted by andy97
On your second point, I am not sure I have seen anything or anybody really saying that “it’s not as bad as we are being lead to believe”
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You've led a very sheltered life, recently, then
I've heard plenty of people from the "it's only a bit if flu" or "its all exaggerated to control us" school of thought - only last week a lady of a certain age was telling me - as she waited for her husband to collect his Daimler SP250 from (oddly) an Alfa specialist - that she had been a nurse and she was sure it wasn't as we were being told, and that there weren't as many deaths as from flu (which is wrong). When I opined that deaths were lessening as medical techniques improved, but that the main concern was the increased hospitalisation and ICU use she rubbished that too - telling me that she knew another nurse who told her about someone who was only in ICU for two days and then he was fine....as if that proved anything. I just told her that I'd rather heed the advice form my Godson who spent weeks as a Covid ICU doctor in the first wave, sleeping in a motorhome on the hospital car park so as not to put his newborn daughter and the rest of the family at risk, and how relieved he'd been to get back to the relatively relaxed world of general A&E as the epidemic waned........