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I disagree. The UK strategy was to not pull the trigger on lock down too early, and then to flatten the curve in a way that fills our front line health service

• DanBC 6y ago
  https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston/status/1237694665824047111 https://twitter.com/BBCMarkEaston/status/1237694665824047111 "There's going to be a point, assuming the epidemic flows and grows as we think it probably will do, where you'll want to cocoon -protect- those at-risk groups so that basically they don't catch the disease, and by the time they come out of their cocooning herd immunity has been achieved in the rest of the population". It's clear from this that the policy was to achieve herd immunity. Without a vaccine the only way to get herd immunity is to let everyone catch it. You don't want vulnerable people to die so you cocoon them, but you want everyone else to get it as soon as possible. This is why mass events (eg, cheltenham gold cup) were allowed to go ahead; this is why the lockdowns were late and weak; and this is why so many people in the UK have died.
  • butler14 6y ago
    that's a pretty cynical interpretation that confuses the practical and biological inevitability (herd immunity) with one of the many method(s) by which we get there (shielding vulnerable groups) a great many things have gone wrong -- but I don't think the overarching UK strategy, or even the timing of executing it -- has necessarily been one, based on existing data