LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government was poised Thursday to extend a nationwide lockdown for several more weeks, as health officials said Britain’s coronavirus outbreak — one of Europe’s worst — is nearing its peak.
It’s actually somewhat reassuring that some governments exercise an abundance of caution in making this decision. Serves as one point of contrast, as if we needed any, with the reactions we’re forced to endure from that small-handed vulgarian.
I assume you’re not talking about the UK, whose “plan” has possibly been worse than even the state-by-state approach in the US.
A reminder:
And they’re not improving. Here’s a discussion about that mythical “peak”:
There have been more than 93,000 cases of Covid-19 identified in the UK. Let’s round that up and say it is 100,000. So if the reports from the BMJ editorial are accurate, the actual number would be that multiplied by five, in which case there would have already been half a million infections in the UK. If this really is the peak and we see as many cases on the way down as on the way up, that would total 1 million infections from the initial surge in the UK – hopefully all of those people would then be immune.
That would leave about 65 million people in the UK still without immunity.
And as he points out, this is even granting that this is a “peak”, that the numbers aren’t mostly bullshit and that non-vaccine herd immunity is actually possible with this disease, which is very much in doubt.