I agree about stamping down on transmission, but is that feasible in the long term? We saw too many cases of infringements (to put it politely)
Out of interest, have you looked at Sweden?
Last week, a study suggested that 30 per cent of Swedes have built up immunity to the virus. It would help explain why Covid-19 has been fizzling out in Sweden. If a measure of herd immunity also helps them avoid the second wave, Sweden’s take-it-on-the-chin approach will be vindicated.
Not going into lockdown was described as “a mad experiment” by many here but also including Swedes such as Marcus Carlsson of Lund University in March and a Dr Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute who accused their government of “leading us to catastrophe”. Every model predicted an exponential rise in infections.
With half of humanity living under lockdown, photos of Swedes socialising in bars and restaurants seemed like communiqués from another dimension.
Aside from a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people, life carried on as normal. Children aged under 16 went to school. No one wore a mask. This, surely, was the calm before a terrible storm.
However, the catastrophe never arrived. As in most other European countries, Sweden saw a peak in Covid-19 deaths in the first half of April, followed by a steady decline. Shown on a graph, the pattern of mortality is indistinguishable from that of many countries that locked down Its daily death toll rarely exceeded double figures and has been below 30 since mid-June. As in Britain, half the deaths were in care homes and two thirds of those who died were aged 80 or over.
The only thing I am reasonably sure of is that there no one single way to dealing with this pandemic. We started in the dark, to use the Scottish term, “bogling “ and there has been much trial and error along the way perhaps with the emphasis on “error”.