Re: The Great Barrington Declaration Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron on October 8, 2020, 4:07 pm, in reply to "Re: The Great Barrington Declaration"
... what about the overall thrust of the proposal -That is the "overall thrust" surely?: proposing a (knowingly unachievable...) purdah for the elderly and at risk in order to let it rip for supposed herd immunity from infection? In order to get the proposed "herd" immunity from the highly infectious covid 19 you would need an 80-90% infection rate. We're presently over 55000 deaths with only what? 7 or 8 % of the population now having some contact & presumed immunity? With the median UK age of forty and those at actual risk being essentially all those over 50 & near anyone with underlying health issues you are really looking at half the population having a serious risk factor: at say a 1% mortality for that 33 million, that could be third of a million potential deaths. Of course the death rate has gone down: perhaps mainly due to increased knowledge of the virus and consequent improvements in medical treatment, but "letting it rip" in one go also means those hospitals made "economically efficient" by the removal of intensive care beds wont be able to handle the numbers and will cause further knock-on deaths. -I don't see anything new here. The government has had since the beginning of the year to organise track trace & isolate, make effective drug and PPE sourcing, target & reduce risk in care homes etc to create like other countries an effective control system over this threat and has effectively done nothing of any worth whatsoever because in truth Social darwinism was their original policy and all the lockdown has done is mitigate slightly. Putting covid aside for the moment on the issue as a whole,look at the long term: what happens when the next viral agent hits worldwide as is inevitable with the privileged allowed fly from infection spot to infection spot? -If the policy is to let rip with little care for who dies on the grounds of economics: just a bunch of economically unviable pensioners remember: just who and how many does it get allowed to kill next time? Just a bunch of economicaly unviable poor folk? Its really no accident that this declaration is produced by an organisation that detests any kind of socialism and clearly also any form of socialised health care.
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