edwin_m
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Has Boris and the government done a good job of handling the pandemic?
A few weeks ago, there were posts on social media supporting Boris and suggesting he and his team deserved support for all the work they’d put in to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. I contend he’ and his cabinet have done an abysmal job, and offer the following as evidence: * Many experts believe...
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Several posters on here are ignoring the existence of a different approach, getting the numbers down low enough that a properly-organized track and trace system can deal with individual cases and quarantine their contacts. You may disagree with it (I myself don't believe it is workable in the UK as we currently stand) but why is nobody even responding to the suggestion?Precisely; and this is exactly the root cause of most of the problems we now face.
We had decided as a nation to adopt an approach of natural herd immunity, which is an effective approach provided that you shield away those who are most vulnerable and likely to die from the virus (ie care homes locked down, those who are currently shielding would have been advised to do so). We didn't do this effectively enough and the virus spread through the vulnerable quickly meaning that, in order to prevent any risk of the NHS being overwhelmed, we had no choice but to enter a national lockdown.
The purpose of the lockdown was achieved weeks ago, and now the government have lost sight of what they're trying to achieve. As I've stated many times now, establishing herd immunity is quite literally the only way out of the pandemic now. The first steps taken by the government were somewhat logical provided that we were planning to follow the herd immunity approach, however, we seem to now have our hearts set on eliminating the virus, which due to the high number of cases in all settings across the country, is simply impossible. The government need to, quite frankly, open their eyes and start to plan on how to best go about achieving herd immunity on the presumption that we may never get a vaccine, as this current approach of pretending to ourselves we can eliminate the virus in order to convince the public that we're 'safe' is just immature and pointless and is causing serious damage to the economy, our mental health, the education of our children, and many other aspects of society.
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