Carole
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But it's a lot more than that. Hospital admissions, as a result of COVID-19, take up a disproportionate amount of NHS resources and then there's the impact of long-COVID
And, many businesses are struggling, due to losing employees who have to isolate. School children are missing part of their education and things like holidays and attendance at events cannot be booked with any certainty.
Now I know flu can be disruptive, but I can't ever recall it being that disruptive. Many other things impact on individuals and families, but not the whole planet.
I think hospital admissions due to Covid are currently 9%.
The reason that flu isn’t as disruptive, even though it kills more people is because most people who catch flu go to bed for a week.
All their work colleagues and those they’ve been in contact with aren’t expecting to go home as well for 10 days.
With Covid far too many people are being asked to isolate.
If someone is being asked to stay home because they’ve been in contact with someone then surely if they test negative themselves then they could be allowed back into society after a few days.
If someone in a restaurant tests positive, why does absolutely everyone who went there have to self isolate too? Even if you were nowhere near that person?
Is it these decisions that are crippling the economy not the virus itself?
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