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> in the hopes that covid 19 will magically disappear That is not any country's strategy anywhere.

• concordDance 6y ago
  Dunno about other countries, but here in the UK we don't seem to have a real exit strategy at all. I haven't seen any mention in the news of any other country's long term covid19 plan either. They haven't even come out and said "we just need to wait for a vaccine"...
  • chimprich 6y ago
    The UK's strategy is lockdown to counteract the initial explosion where we allowed the initial outbreak to get out of control, then gradually release the lockdown whilst keeping R under 1. Keeping R under 1 is is to be done with a combination of social distancing, human contact tracing, an app, testing, quarantines etc. If R is under 1, your cases trend towards 0. Eventually the outbreak ends when you get a vaccine or the measures reduce your cases to 0. No guarantees that it'll work but I don't see why it can't work in theory. You'll probably have occasional flare ups and course corrections but it should get easier over time as total infections reduce and our understanding of the disease improves and testing improves.
    • concordDance 6y ago
      Do you have a source for that being the UK's plan? Also, it'll take over a year to get a vaccine or cases to 0 at current rates. And then you need to stop people getting into the country who have it again.