Locals,
Treatment in the UK for Covid is free as are the majority of procedures, in that it’s paid for by taxing the population.
Boris was just preparing the public for the stark truth that many people would die, having seen Italy’s death toll, what should he have said, it’s going to be a walk in the park !
Sir Patrick Vallance used the term herd immunity as one of the ways of slowing the spread of the disease by people catching it and building up antibodies within their body’s therefore stopping the spread, it wasn’t and never has been government policy to infect us all and get on with it, it’s what a vaccine does, gives us herd immunity, and apart from either a vaccine or drugs to cure this virus, is the only thing that is going to save us. He also made that statement at the beginning of the pandemic when little was actually known about the virus, it’s replication and spread.