Originally Posted by
NoelEvans
guy, I'm not quite so doom-and-gloom about the need for a vaccine. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer recently pointed out that the world is living with, and managing, many deadly diseases (she quoted that only smallpox has been eradicated, all the others are still out there). Not everything has come to a grinding halt because of them. Some genuine management of this one at source could have avoided us all needing such dramatic management of it now. But we will get there, vaccine or not.
I agree with you! I don't think a vaccine is the holy grail. I think that if the government message had been sensible from the beginning and they'd made it absolutely clear that this was basically a mild infection for the vast majority rather than scaring the hell out of the population with the hectoring "Stay home, protect the NHS, Save Lives" nonsense, we wouldn't be in this mess and we would just be getting on with it.