Quote Originally Posted by dml1954 View Post
This has just reinforced my opinion that the poorly thought out measures just introduced by Drakeford have absolutely nothing to do with Covid itself and the severity of the new variant and are just designed partly to try to force people to get the booster quickly but mainly to protect the NHS which is struggling to deal with the existing admissions for usual winter diseases and the backlog of other cases caused by the earlier more serious Covid variants. Whilst the latter objective obviously has merit in respect of taking pressure off NHS staff, this is a slippery slope as every year the NHS faces exactly the same pressures, pandemic or not. Cue Mr Drakeford every December trying to introduce similar measures to restrict population movement and lifestyles, just because the NHS is busy.
Earlier variants were not necessarily ‘more serious’, this one has greater escape and is more transmissible even if it is less likely to cause serious illness. The potential pressures faced by the NHS in the month ahead are not ‘usual winter pressures’.

You think the current measures would be used by the current Welsh Government outside a pandemic scenario because of ‘usual winter pressures’? Really?