Originally Posted by
Radgirl
No absolutely not
We are talking about dying.
We need to shut borders, lock down and test. Several weeks ago. No ifs no buts.
If we had done so early enough we would be coming out the other end. The longer the delay the worse it will be medically and economically. The UK government must wake up.
In any case there is no knowledge as to how long exposure protects you. It may be short term, it may be the virus mutates. The only protection is to develop one of the vaccines and to trial the drugs identified by AI. Both the other side of the potential second wave
we could have done that a couple of months ago. For that, now it's way too late and the virus can not be controlled. And if we can control the virus the likely hood of a second wave will be very large. At this moment a complete lockdown does not make much sense since it will not isolate the virus anymore.
Hang on everybody. It's going to be a very tough year.