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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
To take your points in order.
1) Again, There is NO guarantee whatsoever that herd immunity will work. Nor is there a guarantee that a vaccine will work. What you have failed to understand yet again is that the lockdowns are designed to limit the pressure on services and to limit the deaths sustained over a period of time. I'll leave the maths here, there's really no point trying to keep explaining it. Most others seem to understand.
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If we do develop immunity once we have contracted the virius then Herd Immunity will work. There is very little in the way of reporting that says that once an otherwise healthy person has caught and beaten the virus that you can catch it again.
So based on that, you would summise that there is some immunity, we'll have to wait to an see. but it's the best option we have at the moment.
It is also possible that the Virus will mutate into a less damaging one for humans. A Virius that kills its host isn't doing its job properly.
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2) The virus has already mutated. Chinese scientists identified 33 strains of it. Link to this is here
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As above, some worse than others, and it's quite possible that people will get some immunity to these other strains or that the strains may be milder.
It's all still a waiting game
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3) This isn't the last lockdown, My guess is we're in for quite a few over the next twelve months. Until such time as an effective vaccine or if we can prove that herd immunity will work then life as we know will considerably change people will simply just have to accept it and get used to it or face the criminal/medical consequences.
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As I've said before this isn't really a "lockdown". I'm not lockeddown. The only impacts this is currently having to my life is that the Kids are at home, and I can't go the pub.