You are confused

The initial signs and symptoms appear to be different with the Delta variant compared to alpha. But it isn’t weaker. You are twice as likely to be hospitalised with the Delta variant

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I'm not confused at all, you can only go by the information you have read. I can accept the medical contention that it may be more dangerous even though this stance flies in the face of the standard life cycle of a virus, which normally weakens as the number of available hosts reduce.

I have read the study although I am not wholly sure what its outcome really is. It fails to be specific about deaths or total numbers of people in hospital who are fully vaccinated compared with those who are not. It makes a lot of assumptions which I guess is what modelling is all about however the real measure the public are interested in is total hospitalisations and deaths from Covid compared with total hospitalisations and deaths from other illnesses and how this has impacted 5 year or 10 year averages as a yardstick.

Surely we are now at a stage where Covid deaths are just another risk in our lives, or do people still think we should we continue to lock down the country and head inexorably towards further financial ruin.

Zero Covid is an unachievable expectation, so managing it whilst returning to normal is the only way to go. As a comparison you can't manage say pneumonia, so that is an understood and accepted illness, however we do not have a national policy for protection from it. Covid is another illness to be added to the list.

So I go back to my original point of now that we are vaccinated, who are we protecting. It would appear that for those unfortunately on deaths door they are still likely to die from Covid if they catch it, jabbed or not, so there is no real protection for this very small sector (although given their general health, they are quite likely to die within a certain time period anyway).

The rest of the population who are healthy and vaccinated or young and unvaccinated must be who the national decisions should be made for. So as a concerned member of the public, the interesting stats I really want to see are:

1) What are the chances of being hospitalised from Covid per 100,000 of the population for vaccinated and the same for unvaccinated in the following age groups:

0-20
21-40
41-60
60-70
70 and above.

2) What are the chances of death from Covid per 100,000 of the population for vaccinated and unvaccinated, same age groups as above.

These stats would make it very easy to formulate in your own mind what the current level of danger really is and might also allow those who haven't had the jab to weigh up the risks either way of having it.

Do you think we should still be locked down? What do you think is the way out of it?

Personally, I think enough is enough.

Am I missing something?
A sensible answer would have been preferable given that I am only stating facts

Now the 'powers that be' are using Covid & the Euros to fine people trying to earn a living . . .

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I'm a blind man, i'm a blind man, now my room is cold,
When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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As in his little trip? Half of it

Same as I’ll believe at least half of what he’s written about. Even 5% of that being true is damaging enough.

Also recency bias is should not be the only measurement in this case. Just because he might have been lying more 12 months ago, doesn’t mean he’s lying the same this time. Further, there’s not much in that write up that comes across as fanciful. Especially when you throw in visual evidence.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

The Lib Dems winning the by-election in Chesham might make him focus a bit more and realise that so many people do not support his totalitarian policies.