Watch this video to explain Uk approach

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Sorry don’t know how to add a link to it but there is a great video online a guy has done using a bucket of water to demonstrate what the UK approach is to tackling 🦠. It’s so easy to understand and does make sense, I think they should show it in the news.
Look up Iaindale.com then go into his blog and it’s the first video clip under the Coronavirus blog.

twitter.com/Ujames1978/status/1238489388134346752

Just copy and paste the address into a post, that makes a link

twitter.com/MilenaZP_/status/1238370728489226240

twitter.com/LBC/status/1239174637302550529?s=20

My post above is the right link

Alternatively

Or rather, better:

twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1238425621375651840

That bucket video makes me so angry. It does not explain the UK government strategy in any way at all. It equally applies to the WHO, Italian, French and Spanish strategy.

Realistically, you can't stop a pandemic in it's tracks by quarantine alone. All you can do is contain the spread and minimise the mortality rate by protecting the most vulnerable and preventing the healthcare services being overwhelmed. But that is what every nation is trying to do and that is all that video demonstrates. We are all trying to "flatten the curve".

The problem is "flattening the curve" too much saves more lives but has a far greater economic and social impact because the flatter the curve, the longer the epidemic lasts. Also depending on how long immunity lasts, it could also prevent the herd immunity threshold ever being reached.

To use the same analogy as the video, it doesn't explain why the UK government thinks it's strategy is going to be better at stopping the NHS bottle from overflowing than the WHO recommendations.

Exactly goingoverground

This video is doing the round in right wing/ boomer FB groups. It's so inaccurate, first of all because the government hasn't taken any real measures to stop the flow into the bucket (the rate of new infections) as they aren't imposing social distancing. Second of all the idea of keeping the flow manageable so it doesn't overflow assumes there is spare capacity in the NHS and that we can increase demand until that capacity is reached. Utterly wrong. If you work in the NHS you know there is no spare capacity, we were struggling to cope with routine work even before CV. And the government have done little to nothing to increase capacity - it's only today, weeks late, that the government have started to try to obtain additional ventilators. Now with the massive tidal wave of coronavirus admissions the NHS will be quickly overwhelmed. Our death rate will sadly be far higher than Italy in my opinion

That bucket video makes me so angry. It does not explain the UK government strategy in any way at all.

I know. It's nowhere near as plain, simple and straightforward as the UK governments official video which is - as you'd expect from a country with one of the worlds most talented media companies - totally flawless.

Mind you, it's also totally non existent, which speaks volumes. Don't want to suck in rubbish ? Don't leave a vacuum. It really is that simple.

All well and good but if that is their strategy, and that is their plan, why aren't they making it available? Why isn't it being reported on the news?

All we hear is politicians saying "we're going to take the right steps at the right time"

What are these steps?

When is the time?

What numbers are they expecting to see before they move on to the next stage?

As the angry man said on Thursday night's question time, we're all educated adults. Why are they explaining things to us like we're five years old?

It's shocking.

Some actual useful analysis:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30567-5/fulltext#fig1

www.newscientist.com/article/2237385-why-is-the-uk-approach-to-coronavirus-so-different-to-other-countries/