Can anyone give any reference stating the Australian Government's plan is herd immunity? djpil's post is interesting for missing out one word - DEATH. The risk of an individual dying is the same if you do nothing or if you use lockdown to reduce the surge. ie you are not preventing a single death with herd immunity unless you are overwhelming the health services
The death rate is very difficult to estimate due to poor data on the true infection incidence. Original Chinese data was 2% but there is a suspicion they have under reported. In Italy and Spain it is in high single figures of infected cases. Also herd immunity may not get more than 40% of the population infected leading to a possible second wave in a year's time.......Are you really saying we will condemn hundreds of thousands of Australians to death? No other country I know of has gone down this route. Australia has braver politicians than NZ
