So if immunity doesn't last long, then CV will be an endless reinfection cycle, killing more and more along the way until a vaccine is found and Boris' herd immunity thing is utter BS. That's one way of looking at it, especially of you read the many Media Opinion pieces masquerading as knowledge! But it is not necessarily the reality of our situation.
If we get infected and survive we will have immunity to this version and some to the next mutation... probably. There are no guarantees, but that is how such things often work out.
So we protect the most vulnerable and the rest carry on, get infected, mainy with very mild symtoms, until the risk has been contained naturally.
It's as viable an idea as shutting down the country and making everyone self isolate for the same 14 days - or 28 days if we do it 50:50... and allowing for those with 'better things to do' to do those better things....
However it is tackled it is scary and there are no promises that any action will be any more efficacious than any other, in the long term!
We live with endless reinfection cycles already. That is why the WHO spends so much time and money on the flu jab. This ill, in time, be added to that as has every other form of flu every identified!
Whatever is happening we don't have anyway to protect everyone. The government caanot do that. We, as individuals have to ecide what we can/need to do for ourselves. That doesn't involve the madness of panic buying loo roll, but does involve taking stockof what we do day to day and changing what needs to be changed.
Yes, I am scared. But being scared won't stop me from catching it and won't save me when I do. So I will wear my British Stiff Upper Lip and I will keep to a clean hands routine and I will just Keep On Keeping On.
Cause there's fuck all else to do - as one song has it!