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There seems to me to be a paradox about the lockdown enthusiasts' position. If Omichron case numbers are doubling every day, then what would the point of lockdown be. The best estimate of lockdown versus the delta variant I have read, quoted a 56% reduction in cases due to strict use of NPIs (how this number was reached was rather opaque). Assuming that Omichron is twice as transmissible as Delta then we could half this (SAGE seem to like fag packet assumptions). So why would you bother with a 28% reduction against exponential growth. It would be like removing a few grains of rice in the old chessboard story on each square.
The reluctance of our media scientists to discuss the seeming failure of vaccination to hinder transmission also begs the question... Are they just pretending that they can do much about rising case numbers?