The UK government is criminally insane to the point that they should be locked up and shot. For every person who would die in the normal course of the disease,

The UK government is criminally insane to the point that they should be locked up and shot. For every person who would die in the normal course of the disease, around 3 more needed hospitalization. The Wuhan experience showed that when hospitals are overwhelmed and cannot put them on ventilators, the fatality rate roughly doubles. The UK course of action is guaranteed to overwhelm local hospitals. At which point even if half the vulnerable population does not get sick, you have as many fatalities in that group as you would have if the rate of spread was reduced. Worse yet, it is currently unnecessary. Both China and South Korea have demonstrate that aggressive containment and quarantine efforts can result in exponential declines in the disease. As a result we should not yet be giving up hope that the disease can be contained, avoiding mass casualties. And even if we did want to take the UK approach, you could always switch to it after you had demonstrated that you can't contain the disease.