Coronavirus (Covid 19)

[Jolie]

If 99% got immunity it’s good enough, but better to achieve it via tested vaccine, just like flu people can get it more than once ...

However, much like flu, which is still killing more worldwide than Covid-19, the virus is likely to mutate, so the vaccine won't be effective.

[NotAllThere]

However, much like flu, which is still killing more worldwide than Covid-19, the virus is likely to mutate, so the vaccine won't be effective.

It's mutating more slowly than mumps or rubella. And the vaccines for those are still effective. Furthermore, although the symptoms feel flu like, it is not a flu virus, so the comparison is invalid.

[darmstadt]

'I'm losing faith in the leadership': an NHS doctor's story | World news | The Guardian

[GhostofTarbera]

'I'm losing faith in the leadership': an NHS doctor's story | World news | The Guardian

Whinger

Probably because people like me have 200 ffp3
Masks for commuting in London


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[AB1]

'I'm losing faith in the leadership': an NHS doctor's story | World news | The Guardian

Quotes from the article, 'I'm losing faith in the leadership': an NHS doctor's story.

"Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it?"

...

"I cannot understand why they have stopped testing and contract tracing, either. Hospital staff are being told we cannot be tested if our [own] symptoms are mild. This is unbelievable. If we’re not allowed to be tested, then how will we ever know how many other people – patients – we are infecting? Brilliant. What a brilliant plan."

As I stated in the OP, the answer to that latter quote, I believe is the attempt at building herd immunity; without enough knowledge on the virus or how our bodies will react to it.

[darmstadt]

As I stated in the OP, the answer to that latter quote, I believe is the attempt at building herd immunity; without enough knowledge on the virus or how our bodies will react to it.

[Tinfoil Hat On]
Maybe the UK's reaction is more of a political / economic one rather than a humanitarian one. What groups are more at risk to the virus and which groups cost more to the NHS in social and health care? There is a correlation there. Along with that, this is a government that has advisers that believe in such lovely subjects as eugenics and survival of the fittest.
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[NotAllThere]

'I'm losing faith in the leadership': an NHS doctor's story | World news | The Guardian

Said every doctor everywhere in the UK for the last twenty years.

[GhostofTarbera]

[Tinfoil Hat On]
Maybe the UK's reaction is more of a political / economic one rather than a humanitarian one. What groups are more at risk to the virus and which groups cost more to the NHS in social and health care? There is a correlation there. Along with that, this is a government that has advisers that believe in such lovely subjects as eugenics and survival of the fittest.
[/Tinfoil Hat Off]

No tinfoil hat required

Official government policy


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[escapeUK]

[Tinfoil Hat On]
Along with that, this is a government that has advisers that believe in such lovely subjects as eugenics and survival of the fittest.
[/Tinfoil Hat Off]

I do tend to notice those who don't believe in such things tend to be old and unfit.

[SueEllen]

I do tend to notice those who don't believe in such things tend to be old and unfit.

So you are saying you believe in eugenics?