To work, it needs comprehensive testing.
How so?
Herd immunity existed long before testing, comprehensive or otherwise.
To work, it needs comprehensive testing.
How so?
I note Holland and Sweden, based on medical advice are going down the 'herd immunity' route.
It doesn't take a brain the size of a planet to work out the main problems with both approaches but reading the general guide on the UK approach helps a lot. It explains why they haven't done a number of things too early. Just saying testing when it relates to 65 million people isn't that simple. Currently the immunity test would leave doubt about 6.5million of them or 10% of any number they choose.
too early
Yes, some places used to have herd immunity to polio. This was achieved at the expense of large numbers of dead, paralysed, and permanently crippled, children, and infertile adults. Not many would want a return to those days.
Today Herd Immunity is often achieved by widespread vaccination.
If you decide to let millions of people catch a disease that will kill (say) a million of them, and you don't know who's got it and who's has it, you abdicate responsibility and cause panic. You do not have facilities to treat all the victims. Not even capacity to bury or cremate them all.
you need to know who's got it and is spreading infection (so they can be isolated and treated), who hasn't got it (so they need not be isolated and can continue about their business), who's had it (so they may not be at risk and can work as care attendent or body-collector), and who is at risk.
Not even NHS staff nursing the victims have been tested.
Without testing, the UK does not know when it has reached 60% or 80% immunity, and does not know if the herd is relatively safe.
What do you know about the Italian town of Vò?
To work, it needs comprehensive testing.
Does it take a brain the size of a planet to advocate testing of hospital staff?
What about testing people displaying signs of infection, or who have been in contact with a known infected person?
The reason we haven't been doing isn't because it is unwise or unnecessary. Cut through the reassuring Johnson waffle. The reason we haven't been doing it is because we are incapable.
Do you think testing can be done "too early?"
What do you know about the Italian town of Vò?
A university cleared an Italian town in a few weeks then had the cheek to say the UK could do the same
you believe to be a paragon of testing