So I felt crap over the weekend - sore throat, headache, temperature.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Well they've gone down the herd immunity route. If they come through without significantly higher numbers of deaths than the rest of us, there's going to be some serious explaining to do.

And if they emerge relatively unscathed we'll have some explaining to do. Taking into account the sparseness of the population of course. And the fact they aren't governed by thieving tory ****holes of course

[Pokster]

Well they've gone down the herd immunity route. If they come through without significantly higher numbers of deaths than the rest of us, there's going to be some serious explaining to do.

I thought that was the route you wanted us to go down?

[7sisters]

I thought that was the route you wanted us to go down?

That seems untenable. Reports claim up to 80% of the population will contract it anyway, therefore the goal is in slowing it down.
If the Govt sticks to these measures, there’s an outside chance that these Nightingale units may not need to be fully utilised.

[Burney]

I thought that was the route you wanted us to go down?

That is rather the point of what I wrote. That we and every other country that's locked down would have some serious explaining to do if the Swedes end up doing not much worse than us.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Temperature spiked yesterday. "Here we go" thinks I.

it returns like a pernicious demon. And in your dreams tonight Sir C will violently plunder your very bowels while a multi-headed Ganpz stands watching pitiless to your cries for help and chants Hindi obscenities.

[Burney]

it returns like a pernicious demon. And in your dreams tonight Sir C will violently plunder your very bowels while a multi-headed Ganpz stands watching pitiless to your cries for help and chants Hindi obscenities.

Oh. Well it's something to break the tedium, at least.

[Burney]

And if they emerge relatively unscathed we'll have some explaining to do. Taking into account the sparseness of the population of course. And the fact they aren't governed by thieving tory ****holes of course

Err...everyone has rejected herd immunity as a strategy, h. Indeed, it was mainly your lot who squealed at the very idea of ‘wanting the pensioners to die’. Twàts.

[7sisters]

Err...everyone has rejected herd immunity as a strategy, h. Indeed, it was mainly your lot who squealed at the very idea of ‘wanting the pensioners to die’. Twàts.

But hang on.. Herd immunity is something of a given. NHS capacity is the over riding concern. Does this mean the Swedes have an unlimited supply of frontline staff, ventilators and beds ?

[Billy Goat Sverige]

But hang on.. Herd immunity is something of a given. NHS capacity is the over riding concern. Does this mean the Swedes have an unlimited supply of frontline staff, ventilators and beds ?

They’re following a model and increasing hospital capacity as they go along. If they keep the curve below a certain line (maximum number of hospital/intensive care beds) then they’re fine. What they’ve been doing is adding restrictions as they go along if they see the curve is getting too close to said line and they feel the restrictions might help reduce the chance of going over it. It’s working so far.

[Burney]

OK, not happy (sorry if that was the wrong word). You'd rather the economy was protected rather than the measures put in place so far

Not even that, actually. I just think we need to have an adult discussion about just what size of long-term hit to our way of life and standard of living we as a society are prepared to take relative to the threat posed by this disease. And by ‘adult’ I mean ‘not immediately hijacked by people accusing others who are trying to take a coldly dispassionate view of the likely outcomes of being heartless bàstards who want old people to die’.