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Originally Posted by Paul
Natural herd immunity only works if you let nature 'have at it', i.e. just get on with life and let people catch it. Since thats clearly not going to happen, its pointless anyone going on about it. Instead we are left with these futile attempts to fight nature, which unsurprisingly dont do well, unless we sacrifice everything on the lockdown alter.
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The NHS can only just cope as it is - it couldn't cope with an attempt at natural herd immunity, even if such a concept was proven. Hence advocates have been dialling down.
The objctive of lockdowns is to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed and in this respect they work. They're not an alternative to herd immunity derived from a proportion of the population being successfully vaccinated.