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Everyone is going to get coronavirus regardless (the isolation measures just slow it down, not stop it). The UK calculated it is better for its citizens to go t
by Drunk_Engineer 7y ago
Everyone is going to get coronavirus regardless (the isolation measures just slow it down, not stop it). The UK calculated it is better for its citizens to go through that now, outside normal flu season when hospitals get more busy.
And as others pointed out, the economic impact is minimized. Crashing the economy also has bad health effects.
- nullc 7y agoThe UK has declined to show their math. Add in the fact that that hospital overload is easily hit with small percentages of the population infected and that even relatively young people die at high rates when they can't receive critical care, I am extremely doubtful that they calculated much of anything here. If large amounts of working age people die because of overloaded hospitals the negative economic effects will be tremendous. Moreover, they now appear to be walking back their plan, suggesting that they will actually trying to slow the progression as much as possible... which is what almost everyone else is doing (as full containment isn't possible).
- earthtourist 7y agoDepending on the rate of infection, there might be time for 20-80% of the population to be vaccinated before being infected. Whatever the number, it would be nice to save as many lives and as much potential long-term damage to people as possible.
- Drunk_Engineer 7y agoThere is no vaccine, and won't be for many years (if at all).
- earthtourist 7y agoThere is no vaccine. No one in the world knows when, or if, there will be one.