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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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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1) We don't know that herd immunity will work as we don't know enough about the virus.
2) The virus was probably brought into care homes in one of two ways.
a) prior to lockdown by somebody asymptomatic
b) during the lockdown period by a resident being taken to hospital and contracting whilst
in hospital
The situation in care homes further exacerbated by staff having inadequate PPE which allowed transmission.