Bantamzen
Established Member
I think the point being made here is that some people seem to believe that unless the vaccines all but completely remove any pressure on the NHS then it has not done it's job, even though clearly that is not the aim. Such has been the pressure from government, NHS bosses and media alike that some have been convinced that nobody should ever be even falling slightly ill from covid, let alone ending up in hospital or dying. Of course we know no pressure isn't going to be the case, even with 75% of adults with both doses and 90% with at least one there will be illness and sadly there will be deaths. But the vaccines are now doing most of the lifting here and are bringing down serious illness to a level that is no overwhelming the NHS or anything close.Depends what one means by the vaccine working. As Professor Van Tam put it; (paraphrase)
If you mean it prevents you getting covid after two doses then I would suggest people are whistling in the wind, I know some people who have had both doses and got covid a couploe of months after the second dose. If however you mean they didn't die or end up in hospital for a period of time then yes it has worked.
So few are saying the vaccines don't work, clearly they do. But they are not working the way some (mainly in the medical & scientific communities) would like, and it is they that are continuing to exert pressure on the government & by proxy the NHS bosses into thinking about more lockdowns. And given 18 months of cover, I suspect that NHS bosses have got quite used to hiding behind covid to not have to deal with the myriad of other problems the NHS has every single year.