Originally Posted by
Maninthebar
Errrm so >12% of deaths UNDER THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS have been of folk <70 - do you not think this would rise? It's not the death rate that is controlled by lockdown but the rate of infection. Your suggestion would spread the disease far faster amongst the freely roaming population, thus ramping up the numbers of dead. Also in passing, removing from the population vast numbers of workers who become ill but do not die, thus having the dire economic effect that you are seeking to avoid.
you do realise that with the difference in mortality between the over 70's and the under 70's, there would be way fewer deaths if all the below 70's would catch it, ensuring that nobody in the above 70's would catch it?