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But we do have a working flu jab that alters as the virus alters to give a high degree of protection to those that receive it, which I thought was the whole point of having so many companies producing different anti Covid inoculations. We will need recurring inoculations on a regular basis, what and when none of us including scientists know. I can see a future when you will only be allowed certain services, flights, access to venues if you can produce an inoculation certificate.



I'm afraid I don't know what the alternative that will resolve all this is, nor do any scientists. My thoughts are that we should have had a two week "circuit breaker" with a fixed start and finish (over the half term break?), with some additional precautions on reopening. For what its worth in my opinion reinforcing social distancing and more mask use should be part of that. We need to find a way to keep the economy going until a vaccine is available but personally I don't think that includes locking down everyone over 60 (from Barrington "Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside") whilst risking long term health problems in those that do catch it possibly totally overwhelming the NHS. Barrington also depends on people acting intelligently and responsibly which sadly many people (a minority but still a substantial number) can't be trusted to do.


I agree with you, which is why I put "needs more investigation before proven as fact" and "For the purpose of discussion, lets assume its true"

And finally before I lay down in a darkened room. On the subject of herd immunity:

The projection is a worst case scenario.
This could put the lives of 8.4 million Africans at risk if immunity was to be achieved naturally, Africa CDC added.
Herd immunity is a situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease through vaccination and/or prior illness to make its spread from person to person unlikely.
Wessam Mankoula, the incident manager for Covid-19 at the Africa CDC, told the BBC that the risk of deliberately giving the virus an avenue to spread will come at a high human cost.
“In a continent of more than 1.2 billion people, this will mean that we will let the infection get to between 720 – 840 million people to reach this herd immunity,” Dr Mankoula said.

As it appears my opinions have irritated so many, I shall bow out and make no further comment.
Cheering commences amongst those gathered