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England dropped most of its Covid restrictions in July. One month on, here's how it's going

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It's been a month since England dropped most of its coronavirus restrictions, a move that was welcomed by much of the country's hard-pressed business sector but criticized by thousands of scientists as a "dangerous and unethical experiment."

Watch out for salespeople selling doom. "Dangerous" translates to this:

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The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment has risen to 5.5 million in July from 4.4 million in February 2020, according to NHS Providers.

What they're doing here is comparing "Delta without restrictions" to the pre-covid era.

Note how they aren't mentioning how many people were "waiting for routine treatment" with a non-Delta version of Covid with full "mask" restrictions earlier this year?
 
Article.

It's been a month since England dropped most of its coronavirus restrictions, a move that was welcomed by much of the country's hard-pressed business sector but criticized by thousands of scientists as a "dangerous and unethical experiment."

Watch out for salespeople selling doom. "Dangerous" translates to this:

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The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment has risen to 5.5 million in July from 4.4 million in February 2020, according to NHS Providers.

What they're doing here is comparing "Delta without restrictions" to the pre-covid era.

Note how they aren't mentioning how many people were "waiting for routine treatment" with a non-Delta version of Covid with full "mask" restrictions earlier this year?


1. We already had our Delta surge which caused us to be locked down/restricted up until last month.
2. We are ahead on vaccinations as demonstrated above.
3. We are now ploughing ahead with teenage vaccinations etc.
 
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