... and as soon as we all came out the virus would infect us again as soon as someone with it appeared. We need 'herd immunity' until such time as the researchers can develop a vaccine.
Stuart
A virus thats dead cant spring out of nowhere.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/28/inside-eyam-village-damned-self-isolated-plague/Herd immunity without a vaccine is flawed.
It requires for everyone to get infected, well if you doing that what's the point of doing it, as we aiming to avoid people getting infected by getting people infected?
You might say well its to save from reoccurrences in future years, the problem is like the common cold you will get re-infected as on a mutation you lose immunity. The UK is going against the rest of the world on this.
I can think of three reasons for this strategy, neither of them are medical.
1 - To get economy downtime as short as possible.
2 - To cull of the economically inactive.
3 - Psychological, the government has no faith in been able to get the english to stay in their houses for very long at least until a later date where they see the carnage in front of them.
Some estimates.
The WHO has the CFR at 3.4%. For comparison flu is 0.1%.
60% of 67 million, 40.2 million
3.4% of 40.2million, 1.4 million rounded up.
Thats a lot of deaths
To make it worse those CFR figures are largely down to health services managing the situation, the NHS is barely coping now, once its at capacity the CFR will sky rocket. Many people critical wont even be attempted to be saved. 65+, economically inactive and probably more. Then you also have deaths from unrelated illnesses which normally would be survivable that wont be treated due to lack of capacity.
The upper estimate for infection is 80% which makes these figures even worse.
My mother is late 70s and needs breathing assistance nightly to sleep, I fear right now I am not going to see her again alive.
