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"We have a choice of taking some small risk now, or face the certainty of a much worse problem later. Time to accept some risk and do something." Agreed 100%.
by nickthemagicman 7y ago
"We have a choice of taking some small risk now, or face the certainty of a much worse problem later. Time to accept some risk and do something."
Agreed 100%.
What about simply letting the people who young and healthy or immune go about their lives?
Letting the young and healthy get sick and then become immune is essentially using an attenuated human instead of an attenuated virus. Same outcome though.
This would both build herd immunity and keep the economy going.
- garethrowlands 7y agoThis was the UK government's plan until they realised just how many people would die as a result.
- nickthemagicman 7y agoThats false. The UK's plan was to not quarantine ANYone. The young are basically immune to this. I'm saying quarantine the vulnerable populations and let the healthy populations out.
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoJust before I get into discussing this idea, I'm curious how sure you are about it. The way you describe it it's pretty much a simple solution that just needs implementing. How do you know exactly what the outcome would be?
- nickthemagicman 7y agoFrom millions of data points it's shown unless you're older or vulnerable you have extremely minimal chance of dying. Then the herd immunity would be build or close to it. It's a much better solution than what we have now that simultaneously killing the economy and human rights.
- nickthemagicman 7y agoSweden has no quarantine and has been averaging around 400 to 500 new cases daily while UK quarantined everyone and has 4000 to 5000 new cases daily. The interesting thing is that the UK has 60 million people while Sweden has 10 million people. So according to those numbers...how effective is quarantine?
- AlexCoventry 7y agoThe UK's plan was specifically and explicitly to isolate vulnerable populations. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11191245/who-self-isolate-coronavirus-12-weeks-pandemic/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11191245/who-self-isolate-coro... > Government guidance is that people who are over 70, have an underlying health condition or are pregnant, are strongly advised to limit social interaction
- nickthemagicman 7y agoWhat's interesting is that Sweden has no quarantine and has been averaging around 400 to 500 new cases daily while UK quarantined everyone and has 4000 to 5000 new cases daily. The interesting thing is that the UK has 60 million people while Sweden has 10 million people. So according to those numbers...how effective is quarantine?
- danieltillett 7y agoThis seems to the Swedish plan. What I have noticed with this plan is that a lot of vulnerable Swedes have died from this plan. I think we can do better.
- nickthemagicman 7y agoPlease post numbers instead of sensational posturing next time. Sweden has no quarantine and has been averaging around 400 to 500 new cases daily while UK quarantined everyone and has 4000 to 5000 new cases daily. The interesting thing is that the UK has 60 million people while Sweden has 10 million people. So according to those numbers...how effective is quarantine?
- danieltillett 7y agoSweden is not doing too much testing either. I am not sure if the UK is a good comparison as they are not really in lockdown at the moment. I think the better comparison is to Norway and Denmark.