Couple comments:
They start planning this now?! They’ve had two years to do this. But haven’t because they were feeling good about Zero Covid — we had zero cases for six months — until Omicron hit. As a commenter says: “government arrogance”.
They are talking “patients” when what they mean is “people who have tested positive”. Gotta stop talking “patients” when most cases are mild. I know many folks whose kids have/had Omicron and they’re fine.
They’ve got everyone thinking that if they test positive they have to go to hospital. Instead of stay at home till you RAT-test negative. Again, a result of Zero Covid policy where every single virus, every spike protein, was tracked mercilessly to source. No longer relevant in Omicron days and people need to be told different. If you’re positive, stay at home. And take “these” medicines, whatever the latest on “these” is.
ADDED: Saw article below. “Paramedics stretched to the limit”, in today’s SCMP, and first thought: I wonder how many people are calling for an ambulance who have few or no symptoms. The answer's in the article: “over 80%” !
Why? Why are people calling ambulance when they’re fine? Below the fold…
Because our government has spent two years telling us that’s what we should do. Why? Because we’ve been gunning for Zero Covid, and so every (rare) case had to go to hospital for quarantine. Omicron has made that obsolete and ludicrous.
