> ~10% of cases require hospitalisation That depends on the demographics that get infected! Stop pulling these numbers out of your asses as if they're universa

> ~10% of cases require hospitalisation That depends on the demographics that get infected! Stop pulling these numbers out of your asses as if they're universally true! That number is based on the virus hitting everyone equally, and central to the UK strategy is that you avoid that, that you instead quarantine and isolate the at-risk people, and build herd immunity among the remainder, not among the entire general population. This entire post and all the comments is one giant "holy crap the UK strategy is bananas!", but it seems no-one understands the rationale behind it! Come on! There are legit arguments against it, but your argument isn't it! > We need a lockdown to buy us some time, but we also need to face up to the reality that a lockdown isn't a solution but merely a stopgap. The whole mad point of the UK strategy is that you'll reach herd immunity without massive hospitalisation and death, and that once you're through it, you're done, the virus will die out in the UK, no matter what the state the rest of the world is in, no matter when a vaccine is finished, no matter if other countries fight intermittent outbreaks or not.