I agree - the statistics being published may have been completely appropriate a year ago, but the need is now very different.
Explicit daily updates of hospital admissions, ICU and deaths should separate those:
- who are unvaccinated
- whose principle reason for being hospitalised is non-covid
- who are elderly or infirm anyway - bluntly any illness could tip them over the edge
- vaccinated and boosted who would otherwise likely have remained in good health
Only the final group represent the "real" covid toll.
Sadly the media like big numbers because it helps them sell more papers. We need a rational approach to the real risks and appropriate measures to control those real risks where necessary.
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