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Originally Posted by Damien
Plus they seem very worried that the worst of this virus would hit next winter in a 2nd phase and that we would be protected from this if we have this slow rollout of the virus over the summer. If that was to be the case then this decision will look brilliant by the end of the year.
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Thankfully it became clear fairly early on that covid-19 causes little more than a bad cold, for those who even develop symptoms, except in a small number of cases. And those serious cases are concentrated amongst (mostly) older people with compromised immunity or other respiratory conditions. As the spread continues, those people are easier to identify and to isolate more carefully. I don’t know if this approach could work if mortality was higher or harder to predict. But it is what it is, and it seems to me that a controlled burn is a good way of dealing with it.