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Old 29-07-2022, 20:37   #2116
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth View Post
Let's have another couple of paragraphs from further down the article, because sometimes the bits you select can say something quite different to whatever follows .

However, Woolhouse is at pains to reject the ideas of those who advocated the complete opening up of society, including academics who backed the Barrington Declaration which proposed the Covid-19 virus be allowed to circulate until enough people had been infected to achieve herd immunity.

“This would have led to an epidemic far larger than the one we eventually experienced in 2020,” says Woolhouse. “It also lacked a convincing plan for adequately protecting the more vulnerable members of society, the elderly and those who are immuno-compromised.”
What I have advocated is opening up society, but protect the vulnerable, particularly those in hospital and in care homes.

Incidentally, the advice given to the PM some weeks prior to the lockdown was in fact to let the virus circulate. Given that no inoculations were in sight, that was a sensible approach. But then, as Woolhouse says, they panicked as infections rocketed.
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