This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Use hospitalisations as the ONLY accurate indicator of Covid's danger to society
New Covid cases do NOT present danger to society. The wrong problem (stopping mild illness) is being tackled. The government should focus on preventing SERIOUS illness & reducing the collateral damage.
No restrictions should be applied unless local hospitalisations are close to causing problems.
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Europe shows that new cases are NOT resulting in many new hospitalisations, despite being in the second wave much longer than the UK.
We must stop the 10,000s of avoidable non-Covid-19 deaths, 10,000s of future non-Covid-19 deaths due to medical neglect of their conditions and lack of screening, and 100,000s of lives blighted by a reduced quality of life - because chronic ailments were allowed to get worse and not treated.
Note: Belgium has already implemented the above suggestion.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
We understand that you are concerned that current restrictions are disproportionate to the dangers posed by new Covid-19 cases, but it is not clear what you mean by using hospitalisations as the only "accurate indicator" of Covid's danger to society. People can suffer from Covid-19, with fatal consequences, outside of a hospital environment.
We could accept a petition calling on the Government to only impose Covid-19 restrictions in areas where hospitalitisations from Covid-19 exceed a certain level, if that is what you want to happen.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.