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Ken posted an update 5 years ago
I don’t have a subscription but this is good news for the UK if it is true. Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty says No more lockdowns – Britain will treat Covid like flu. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/01/no-lockdowns-britain-will-treat-coronavirus-like-flu-says/
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Like every other announcement of this kind that I’ve heard from the UK gov’t, the speaker is careful to hedge. For instance (from the article, emphasis mine): “However, [Whitty] added: ‘Society will not tolerate more than a certain number of people being ill, even if they know it’s going to go away come the spring, and the area where we’re going to have to pull the alarm cord is if a variant of concern comes in that we can see is now back to a situation of unconstrained growth because the immunological response to it is just not there.’ ” How much you wanna bet, in a few months, the headlines will be all about “variants of concern” that Imperial College modeling predicts “could lead to exponential growth”? Then, of course, they’re back to restrictions till they can tweak the existing vaccines and get the new injections into 20 million people.
And even if they open up more, they’re not going to get rid of masks, antisocial distancing, or immunity passports.