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Yes, but that's a long-term trend that's capable of being planned for years or decades in advance. Of course we should still try to improve lifestyle choices through education and encouragement, but lifestyle-related medical issues aren't causing a sudden, significant increase in hospital demand over and above that which was already expected. That's the fundamental difference.
Yes I take your point Bryan. However had the government enforced strict healthy diets, mandatory exercise regimes and alcohol & smoking bans for the overweight/unhealthy over the past 2 years, I suspect that would have made more of a difference to hospital admissions than forcing vaccination on the relatively small number of people who haven’t had one now.
Not that I’m advocating forcing anything - quite the opposite. My family are all vaccinated but I think blaming the unvaccinated for pressure on the NHS and pushing for mandatory vaccines is absurd.
Having said that I think all the restrictions are now absurd. We can’t all spend our lives being petrified of a virus that will be with us for many years to come, with a huge number of variants. Let’s be honest - if 3 jabs in 6 months for 95% of adults isn’t enough then there’s no hope! The unvaccinated are a cheap target for those who are still scared of the virus despite being jabbed numerous times over. No doubt the quadruple jabbed will blame the triple jabbed in time, it’s a circus.
It’s time to get back to living as normal.