Originally Posted by
vlieger
I find this argument hard to believe and most alleged proof of this that I’ve seen seems very thin. Without a lockdown hospitals would have been completely overwhelmed.
National ICU bed usage didnt exceed 60% in the UK. We were a long way off, plus, ICU capacity was significantly increased, probably one of the success stories from all of this. There were individual hospitals close to breaking, but thats why the military were ready on standby to fly cases to where capacity was available from the capital.