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I'm not sure what you're talking about, but the herd immunity thing was a throw-away statement tacked on to the end of an initial briefing, it was never the pla

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but the herd immunity thing was a throw-away statement tacked on to the end of an initial briefing, it was never the plan. Also, we shut-down pretty quick when it became clear how much worse Italy was faring than the stats China had claimed. There seems to be some pretty ridiculous things being said in foreign papers at the moment about Britain's response as it's an easy way to deflect criticism of themselves. The only people who have the right to throw shit are the Germans, Soth Koreans, Taiwanese as they're the only ones who seem to have got ahead of this thing. The British is on a similar trajectory (if not lower) then America/Italy/Spain/etc., if you put aside the frankly unprofessional and crazy IMHE projection (which is already failing to match real-life three days later).

DanBC 7y ago
> but the herd immunity thing was a throw-away statement tacked on to the end of an initial briefing, it was never the plan. This is incorrect. Herd immunity very much was the plan, driven by the fucking idiots in the nudge unit. Here's David Halpern talking about cocooning and herd immunity: https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston/status/1237694665824047111 https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston/status/1237694665824047111 Here's a thread demolishing David Halpern's work. https://twitter.com/sophie_e_hill/status/1242512602112155650 https://twitter.com/sophie_e_hill/status/1242512602112155650
dragonwriter 7y ago
> The British is on a similar trajectory (if not lower) then America/Italy/Spain/etc., Yes, it's among the worst hit as all those you name are, and like the US that's mostly a result of national government incompetence and not other circumstances that put it in that group (Italy seems from what I understand to be other circumstances, Spain I'm less clear on.)

DanBC 7y ago

> but the herd immunity thing was a throw-away statement tacked on to the end of an initial briefing, it was never the plan. This is incorrect. Herd immunity very much was the plan, driven by the fucking idiots in the nudge unit. Here's David Halpern talking about cocooning and herd immunity: https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston/status/1237694665824047111 https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston/status/1237694665824047111 Here's a thread demolishing David Halpern's work. https://twitter.com/sophie_e_hill/status/1242512602112155650 https://twitter.com/sophie_e_hill/status/1242512602112155650

dragonwriter 7y ago

> The British is on a similar trajectory (if not lower) then America/Italy/Spain/etc., Yes, it's among the worst hit as all those you name are, and like the US that's mostly a result of national government incompetence and not other circumstances that put it in that group (Italy seems from what I understand to be other circumstances, Spain I'm less clear on.)