Covid is real. It is fatal to many people including younger people.
You may get mild symptoms (it wiped out a 40 year old fit as a fiddle colleague of mine for 3 weeks). You may get worse symptoms.
There are not the resources in hospital to cope.
My, in her 20's, daughter, who is far, far, far more intelligent than me (bachelor of medicine and bachelor of science (biomedical sciences studied at the same time as her medicine degree), has passed the first exam and OSCE of her specialist choice, tells me it's real.
She comes home horrified at the seemingly needless deaths - over 350 beds in a c500 bed hospital devoted to covid patients. There are no where near enough ITU beds. She's been treating people in ambulances (though that's improved now). For her, this round is better, because she's not directly on ITU and doesn't do nights. Last time, she said all she could see when she closed her eyes were dead bodies and she wasn't the only one.
She only gets full PPE if they are conducting procedures that generate "aerosol".
I know she fights for patients. I know she does everything she can, you can see it on her face when she gets home.
The lockdown is peeing her off, she chose the local hospital to be able to come back and stay with family and friends after being away from home for 9 years and to be able to take weekends away with us, go out for dinners and have sociable fun. She can only be here for one year and sees it all as a sick joke, but whether the lockdown, masks etc. are necessary or not, her answer is simple: Anything, absolutely anything that stands a chance of reducing infection is a good thing.
She would be happy to take deniers around the empty out patients departments to the packed wards where all the action is happening.
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