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Old 16-04-2020, 20:05   #2225
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
You’ve got absolutely no evidence to support your hunch that these measures are having no effect on the outcome. Indeed, we’ve the entire capitalist system betting billions that it will.

Herd immunity is just Darwinism. You’re proposing to let people die to everyone left over doesn’t have the disease. We could extend that principle to plenty of illnesses - yet don’t.
Herd immunity is natural. Humans didn't invent it.

The government was very clear all along that the whole point of isolation was to slow down the virus so the NHS can cope. Did you miss that?

You have seen the rate at which the people started to come down with coronavirus. What makes you think that we can stop this in its tracks? Only a vaccine will stop it short and we are nowhere near getting that.

All those people in care homes, with no visitors allowed and not going out anywhere, are still going down like flies. That shows how impotent we really are at dealing with new viruses like this. The fact that we have managed to slow it down is a massive achievement. But it will get that 80% of the population, of that I have absolutely no doubt.
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