Are we quietly still going for herd immunity?

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This was the government's original plan... Surely the science has stayed the same?

Is the plan actually to suppress this peak so the NHS can cope then once that has dropped will be in a much better position when cases start returning due to the I creased capacity with more ventilators and hospitals etc.

So restrictions are then lifted but we have a much better chance of not being overrun. I know people have suggested speradic lockdown but I just can't see this working with the economy etc and as much as people don't like to admit it, tanking the economy could kill or make many many more people suffer than this virus will.. I don't agree with alot of what he says but like trump said... The cure cannot be worse than the problem!

Yes definitely. There are only 2 ways out of this - vaccinations or herd immunity. Without either of these things we are constantly at risk of situations like now. It isn’t as if if we stay in lock down for x weeks that the virus will just die out and we can go back to normal. I think we will have lock down till may then relaxation to allow more (non vulnerable) people to get it, then lock down again once numbers start rising significantly. This will repeat until we reach herd immunity or we find a vaccine (but worth bearing in mind that majority of us probably won’t get vaccinated and finding a vaccine is just the start of a long process - look at the situation with testing supplies worldwide).