duke63 wrote:The idea of isolating everyone is that the disease becomes isolated and cannot be transmitted across all the population.
It's the only weapon we currently have to fight it.
If the disease swamps the population then hospitals will not be able to cope and it wont just be those in hospital with covid 19 who suffer it will be eeveryone in hospital.
Not everyone is isolated though. As a critical worker I'm not isolated and therefore exposed to CV19 which I'm fine with. The disease isn't going to disappear we are only delaying exposure.
My point is why delay exposure to the majority who wont be a burden to the NHS and only develop mild illness and be able to carry on or self treat. We need to protect the high risk groups not everyone.
In an ideal world isolating everyone makes sense, but in the real world despite government measures buisness's will go to wall and people will loose jobs in the aftermath. Surely we just protect the at risk groups and let the masses carry on to ensure buisness, education and jobs are not effected unesscarily.
If we protect the at risk people there will be no increase in fatalities compared with isolating everyone.
There is no perfect solution to this and we have to consider the effect of jobs and education in the aftermath as much as temporary virus containment