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Just goes to show how faulty our recollection is that it changes what we think was history. Best to actually look it up. (hint: you won't find the 'do nothing

Just goes to show how faulty our recollection is that it changes what we think was history. Best to actually look it up. (hint: you won't find the 'do nothing for herd immunity' as a stategy, but you will find many newspaper articles speculating about it based on out of context quotes) History gives a better record than our impressions from the news of the sensational at the time and our faulty memories.

teachingassist 6y ago
> you won't find the 'do nothing for herd immunity' as a stategy Sure, I will. Here's the original Imperial College Report 9 to which I am referring: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2020-03-16-COVID19-Report-9.pdf https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/m... which discusses 'mitigation' and 'suppression' as two possible strategies, in March 2020. The UK government took this report as an endorsement for 'mitigation', which it discusses in more detail, even though the report says "For countries able to achieve it, this leaves suppression as the preferred policy option." Mitigation is quoted as meaning "reducing peak healthcare demand while protecting those most at risk of severe disease from infection" - I'll admit I extrapolated this into "do nothing". There are then plenty of articles discussing this, e.g.: https://henrytapper.com/2020/04/04/suppression-vs-mitigation-whats-this-all-about/ https://henrytapper.com/2020/04/04/suppression-vs-mitigation...