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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
In my view, we need to get people back to work and re-open the schools. The people who need protecting are those registered as vulnerable, although frankly how we manage that is not as easy as it sounds. Visitors have been banned from care homes and good protective measures introduced, but the virus has still got in and the number of deaths is high.
I know some of you don't accept this, but the virus will run its course, no matter what we do. Slowing it down is all we can hope to achieve.
The measures to date have worked in that we have avoided the peak that was predicted if we did nothing, but the number of new cases will start rising again when the lockdown finishes. Unless, of course, our summer season finishes it off, but the jury is still out on that.
While I hope that we do find an inoculation that works and we can get it out there this autumn, the problem is that nobody is yet certain that this can be done, and if it cannot, it will be a long time before it becomes available, by which time, the virus will have burned itself out (provided it doesn't mutate, in which case any inoculation will be worthless against it).
In the end, it is herd immunity that will stop the virus and waiting for the cure to achieve that is hopeless, I'm afraid. It will simply come too late. I completely understand that people are reluctant to face this, but that is the naked truth of the matter.[COLOR="Silver"]
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Apart from the fact we don't know if herd immunity will work yet, there's not even a guarantee that a vaccination will work.
Tell me Old Boy, what's do you propose as an acceptable amount of deaths for the country to have to accept in order for the economy to be protected. 100,000? 250,000? 1,000,000?