Originally Posted by Jays ex Nero
Originally Posted by Deejay
. What are they up to? Maybe hoping to ease the broken NHS long term, by clearing out geriatrics and the chronically ill in one swoop by blaming it all on the world crisis. I despair!!


It must have crossed their mind that there’s a potential for huge government savings in not having to pay out their pensions any more!

There’s quite a bit of opposition to the governments approach from other medical scientists who question if the “herd” approach will actually result in meaningful immunity. On top of that the latest quotes seem to be that out of the 80% infection rate that they are looking for, about 8 million will require hospital treatment. Well that’s going to swamp the NHS...which I understood was exactly what this approach was meant to avoid!
I’m convinced that is all about money and in particular GDP in the year of Brexit.

The response of an Italian scientist to the proposal of "herd" immunity was that either the advice to the UK Government was bad or misunderstood. Given that the worse effected are predominantly elderly or otherwise weak people this means being prepared to watch thousands of people die. In his opinion this approach is both irresponsible and cynical.

The other interesting thing that he mentioned was that it is now obvious that 20% of those infected do not develop severe symptoms, in other words they are healthy carriers of the virus.

It seems that many people, businesses and organisers of events in the UK are being more responsible than the government. Unfortunately there are also many people who are not prepared to alter their habits.

Peter

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