On February 21, 2022, British Prime Minister Boris announced that the strategic plan of "coexistence with the new crown" will be implemented from February 24.
The main elements of the program include: no longer requiring positive patients to self-isolate; no longer tracking and circulation of confirmed and positive patients; no longer providing free nucleic acid testing for people without symptoms; stopping updating daily COVID-19 data; canceling the need for nucleic acid testing and isolation for entry into the UK; and canceling the "wear mask order"...
Clear-eyed people have seen it and said that it is "coexistence with the new crown", but in fact, it is precisely by "infecting the whole people with the new crown and achieving coexistence with the new crown".
Remembering that when the new crown epidemic was just raging around the world, the United Kingdom proposed the concept of "herd immunity" early on, and because there was no vaccine and the early virus had the characteristics of high infection rate and high mortality, the proposal was criticized by many experts around the world. More than two years later, with COVID-19 vaccination rates on the rise, the UK seems to be feeling like it's done itself again and can't wait to announce the "Coexistence with COVID-19" programme.
At present, the most curious question is that it has been almost two months since "coexistence with the new crown", what is the current situation in the UK? Have you achieved what you wanted to "coexist with COVID-19"?
According to an assessment report released by the NHS (National Health Service) from 21 to 27 March, there were 988 new deaths in the UK during the week, with an average of more than 2,000 new hospitalizations per day. The number of infections also continues to rise. In addition, as of April 14, the UK has ushered in a new peak in the number of confirmed cases.
To be clear, the increase in the number of confirmed cases is not the most deadly for the UK, and the total collapse of the medical system is an invincible crit. According to foreign media reports quoted by the Global Network, hospitals in many parts of the United Kingdom have declared a "serious crisis state".
In March alone, more than 28% of emergency patients waited longer than 4 hours, and more than 20,000 patients waited longer than 12 hours for beds.
Hospitals have been forced to declare that it is not advisable to go to the emergency department if it is not a life-threatening or serious accident. But in fact, as many as 40% of cancer patients wait for more than 2 months to see a doctor.
Britain's healthcare system has been slammed down after implementing "coexistence with COVID-19". The increased risk of hospitalization, as well as high load operation, has led to more and more medical staff absenteeism. This has led to patients either spending high prices to see private hospitals or continuing to line up in front of the NHS, and as things stand now, the number of people waiting in line will increase. And the health care system will continue to be battered, creating a vicious circle.
Many epidemiologists in the UK say that the new crown virus is still mutating, and there is no guarantee that there will be a "dangerous" strain in the next few years.
In addition to the collapse of the medical system, the education industry, many small businesses, etc. have experienced a wave of absenteeism, it is understood that about 14% of British companies are unable to start normal work due to the new crown epidemic; about 20% of neutral school teachers are absent due to infection with the virus, and hundreds of thousands of job vacancies in the British food and agriculture industry...
One thing that has been confirmed is that people get covid-19 a second or more time, and a primary school principal in Liverpool said in an interview that there had never been such a serious teacher absence. Some teachers have just taken a week off sick leave and are infected with the new crown and have to continue to take sick leave.
The same is true of other industries in the UK, where a study report suggests that labour shortages could lead to a "permanent winter" for the UK's food industry.
For the elderly with underlying medical conditions and other vulnerable groups, the harm caused by the new crown virus is even worse.
Moreover, studies have shown that many recovered people in the UK continue to be plagued by sequelae after discharge, resulting in limited work ability, which will further increase medical and financial expenditures, thereby affecting the economy.
There is a Chinese saying that "don't hit the southern wall and don't turn back", and I don't know if the British have hit the southern wall? However, this may be seen in the rising voices of criticism and skepticism in britain.
On March 30, the British "New Scientist" weekly website published an article entitled "The new crown clearance strategy is being abandoned, but it is the best option", which pointed out that no matter which point of view, countries that follow the zeroing principle have done better, and if all countries had taken zeroing measures from the beginning, the world would have been different now.
Judging from the current situation, there is still a long way to go to achieve "coexistence with the new crown virus", first of all, the severe disease rate should be greatly reduced, and at the same time, a large-scale immune population will emerge, so that the new crown epidemic can be avoided. In other words, vaccination reaches 85% or more, and the new crown vaccine mutates into a less toxic virus, and it is necessary to develop special drugs that can treat seriously ill patients in a timely manner.
Unfortunately, all three of these goals are difficult to achieve in the short term. Therefore, it may be difficult to achieve "coexistence with the virus" in the short term.
Although the new crown epidemic has been around for more than two years, people still have insufficient understanding of the virus, but it is now clear that the more people infected, the more mortality and severe disease rates, perhaps many people say that they have no feelings after the new crown infection, but such a large population base can not make such a wayward decision.
"Face the virus, rather than pretend it doesn't exist by ignoring it", otherwise what awaits humanity may be even more unbearable pain.