Perhaps the hidden story of 'hospitalisations are all that matter'. As many have suspected in Australia too.…

Perhaps the hidden story of 'hospitalisations are all that matter'. As many have suspected in Australia too. Here's the UK experience. Bed occupancy rates look of concern, but maybe manageable post-vaccination. /1 #COVID19 https://t.co/z28qyaFIsR

On the other hand, look at excess deaths in the home. (And how few are coded as Covid on the death certificate.) An obvious way to suppress your hospitalisations and deaths is to outsource them to private homes. /2 https://t.co/Od8uXDKQ6R

As further context, look at the slashing of NHS bed numbers in the past 30 years. In recent times it's been brutal: https://t.co/O6kfUVaKK1 /3 https://t.co/aKIlYpxbCr

There's ongoing uncertainty about much Hospital in the Home (HITH) is being used appropriately in NSW and Victoria, and how much HITH is suppressing hospitalisation numbers. /4 https://t.co/mMxDZuleq7

More generally, a thought experiment. Take any health issue, like car accidents, or shark maulings. Pre-pandemic, would we have laughed if somebody said 'our overall strategy is to keep the number of maulings and accidents within our ICU capacity.' I hope so. I hope we'd.../5

...ask 'what are we doing to stop the maulings and car accidents'? And yet with Covid, up is down, left is right, black is white. You can run ICU at full capacity into the indefinite future, apparently, without controlling infections. Burning through your HCWs. /6

When will the fantasy bubble of mass infection as a pandemic strategy pop? Why do some notable experts even support it? How is this not just the complete breakdown of due health process and basic common sense? /7

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