Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[LurkerJ]

Trumpstyle said:

LurkerJ said:

But that's hardly a good example? Boris was presented with the same faulty models that you yourself believe are faulty? And as a politician, even if he was a cold blooded murderer, there was no way he would look at those number and continue to pretend that he had a choice? and with shit bipartisan journalism being the norm and politics being a circus everywhere in the world, there was no chance he'd go with the herd immunity option even if it was the less deadlier one, because it is political suicide and he'd never get a fair chance at explaining his decision? The applies for most politicians in the west.

If you want a good example, you'll have to actually look at countries that actually went ahead and actually tried that approach. What a dumb ass answer that was. 

Herd immunity means getting your population infected so they become immune to the virus. That is not what Japan is doing, they tracking every individual that get the virus and those that was in contact with infected people to isolate them. I'm pretty sure they have very strong border security, where entrance are difficult or even maybe shut down.

US can't do what Japan is doing as the virus is already wide spread.

Japan isn't my own example, I only transcribed to the part of the interview that seemed interesting to spare people the time of watching the entire thing, it's the host of the show who chose Japan as an example.

Disregarding all of this, and even in a vacuum in which Japan wasn't mentioned, Dr Fauci's response using the UK as example was dumb, the UK didn't change course because of what was happening, we changed course because of what the models predicted would happen, it's not because we tried the "herd immunity" approach and it failed.

Last edited by LurkerJ - on 11 April 2020