Quote Originally Posted by TWGL1 View Post
Possibility, but the CMO said during this time that most would have mild to moderate symptoms.
It was highly infectious. It still is but now we have vaccines.

Even if only 10% of the country had it at any one time, and most only had moderate symptoms at worse, and a small percentage had it bad enough to be hospitalised or require a ventilator - that would be far above what the health service could cope with.

A small percentage of millions of people is still a destructively large number in hospital bed terms.