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>My sense is that the UK will probably fold and institute a lockdown once their ICU capacity gets overwhelmed and healthy young people start dying in the street
by tacomonstrous 7y ago
>My sense is that the UK will probably fold and institute a lockdown once their ICU capacity gets overwhelmed and healthy young people start dying in the streets. Either that or they'll face a revolution and then have a lot more problems. Of course, by the time it gets to either of those points it'll be too late to effectively change course.
Looks like that's already happening: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-uk-strategy-deaths https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-uk-strategy...
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- chrisseaton 7y ago>My sense is that the UK will probably fold and institute a lockdown once their ICU capacity gets overwhelmed and healthy young people start dying in the streets. Either that or they'll face a revolution and then have a lot more problems. Of course, by the time it gets to either of those points it'll be too late to effectively change course. > Looks like that's already happening Is UK ICU capacity overwhelmed and are young people dying in the streets? No. Don’t spread rumours in this situation.
- jfkebwjsbx 7y agoThey aren't rumors. UK ICU capacity is already overwhelmed.
- chrisseaton 7y agoNobody is dying in the streets of the UK. This is silly nonsense.
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- DennisP 7y agoNo, what's happened is they've already changed to a lockdown strategy, as the link above details.
- slap 7y agoThere's still no lockdown in the UK, as of now
- tacomonstrous 7y agoYes, sorry, what I meant was that the lockdown was likely going into effect already, but not for completely apocalyptic reasons.
- baq 7y agothat article is pure gold, if it was the onion i wouldn't be able to tell. > "We were expecting herd immunity to build. We now realise it’s not possible to cope with that," professor Azra Ghani, chair of infectious diseases epidemiology at Imperial, told journalists at a briefing on Monday night. i can multiply numbers fifteen times in a row and come to that conclusion. alternatively, i can watch italian tv. did these people never looked up from their models to confront them with actual reality?
- dforrestwilson 7y agoTruly incredible
- marvin 7y agoHow long did it take them to no longer expect herd immunity to build? 12 hours? That must be one of the most ridiculous acts of about-face in public policy in this generation.