ToryGraph moronic article of the day

[AtW]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4adbwtsaMxE

Odd that - one would have thought he’d follow his own plan of “herd immunity”

[AtW]

I hope her parents/grandparents have left all their assets to the RSPCA.

They are changing their will later today...

[SueEllen]

Wonder if she'd have been happy if the herd strategy had killed her parents/grandparents?

Thing is, it still might.

qh

I hope her parents/grandparents have left all their assets to the RSPCA.

[quackhandle]

Wonder if she'd have been happy if the herd strategy had killed her parents/grandparents?

Thing is, it still might.

qh

[ladymuck]

Nah. To be a superspreader you need to have lots of friends.

Or be of negotiable affection

[willendure]

That ugly mother****er would probably turn out to be a superspreader.

Nah. To be a superspreader you need to have lots of friends.

[sasguru]

1918 'flu. Philadelphia didn't practice social distancing, St Louis did.

Why social distancing might last for some time - BBC Future

If someone can find the graphs for economic growth of Philadelphia and St Louis, perhaps we could then decide.

That example is in all epidemiology textbooks. It's where the phrase "flattening the curve" originated.

[NotAllThere]

1918 'flu. Philadelphia didn't practice social distancing, St Louis did.

Why social distancing might last for some time - BBC Future

If someone can find the graphs for economic growth of Philadelphia and St Louis, perhaps we could then decide.

[sasguru]

It really wasn't the "London Bubble" that objected to the "herd immunity" plan (which BTW is a term that applies to vaccinated populations), it was the worldwide community of epidemiologists.
It used to be the left who were thick as mince, now it's the right.
In a way I wish they had stuck to the original plan.
It would have served the country right.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I fooking hope he gets a bad dose of it.

That ugly mother****er would probably turn out to be a superspreader.

[DealorNoDeal]

Through this “herd immunity” strategy, a resurgence of the virus after it had seemingly peaked would be avoided. Championed by Dominic Cummings, the approach was creepy, clinical and completely correct.

I fooking hope he gets a bad dose of it.

[AtW]

"Namely that, faced with the protestations of the London bubble, the PM has jettisoned the only sensible strategy for dealing with the biggest global crisis since the Second World War. To put lockdown in the most cynical terms, the Government has decided to trash the economy rather than expose itself to political criticism. Unless Mr Johnson U-turns, the fallout could be cataclysmic.

Just a couple of weeks ago, the signs that our new Government would not resort to the same clunky damage control as other countries were reasonable. While Italy shooed people into their homes to stem all infections, the UK’s approach seemed more nuanced – getting the most vulnerable to self-isolate, while allowing lower risk people to get infected on a scale that wouldn’t overwhelm the NHS.

Through this “herd immunity” strategy, a resurgence of the virus after it had seemingly peaked would be avoided. Championed by Dominic Cummings, the approach was creepy, clinical and completely correct.

For a flicker, the Government seemed willing to withstand the paroxysms of its opponents and the shivers of its sympathists to take this long-termist course of action. Yes, it gambled on strong assumptions. But with leadership and clever use of numerical probability scale methods – which incidentally helped a clutch of obscure US superforecasters to actually predict Covid-19 – they may have pulled it off."

The PM was panicked into abandoning a sensible Covid-19 strategy, and has plunged society into crisis

Jesus Fecking Christ