Herd immunity is every country's strategy, UK was just more honest about it
than others. Containment was a viable strategy in Wuhan when cases were
localized, but I suspect even there they will be seeing a second wave very
soon as they gradually restart the economy. The several days of
asymptomatic contagiousness is just really tough to get around. Absent a
vaccine ~60% of us need to get this and recover to stop it. The only
questions are how fast it will happen and whether a vaccine or mitigative
drugs will be available. Don't confuse the early efforts to reduce the
exponent with a viable long-term strategy.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:51 AM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Masks are for the infected, to keep them from infecting others. They
provide little/no protective benefit for the uninfected.
On 3/21/20 11:58 PM, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
On 22/03/2020 02:30, Norman Yarvin wrote:
The same public health people who have beclowned themselves by telling
people that masks are useless?
Well, at least masks are available to the unbelievers. Shame they are
not available to the nurses ..
Peter Fairbrother