Johnson’s ‘herd immunity’ is a nonsense: Covid-19 antibodies fade within months
Boris Johnson’s entire strategy for coping with Covid-19 has been proved to be useless – according to the science.
Oh yes, yes – Johnson appeared to give up on ‘herd immunity’ when he put the UK into lockdown in March.
But for lockdown to succeed, we all had to stay away from possible infection until the virus had no way of reproducing and passing from person to person.
Johnson’s strategy ensured that there were always people circulating who could be exposed to it. Think about the NHS staff with their inadequate PPE (personal protection equipment), or care staff who carried the disease between homes after the Tories ordered infected residents to be sent there.
And Johnson has kept infection rates up by easing the lockdown for sectors of the community – schools, for example. Pub-goers. Commuters…
All of it was for nothing if he thought he was immunising the nation incrementally because it turns out that Covid-19 antibodies don’t last.
Like the common cold, it seems it will be possible for the virus to infect us all on a regular basis.
That’s the finding of research by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust – and also by the Spanish Ministry of Health.
So the easing of lockdown before Covid-19 was eradicated has done nothing but prolong the crisis in the UK; Johnson would have been better-advised to make the lockdown much harder (and he probably was). It would have been for a much shorter period.
But it seems unlikely this bull-in-a-China-shop prime minister will acknowledge his own stupidity and change course.
All in all, it suggests that the conspiracy theorists are right and he’s simply using the pandemic as a way of culling the population.
Given the evidence, why else would anyone follow a plan as ridiculous as Johnson’s?
Source: Immunity to Covid-19 could be lost in months, UK study suggests | World news | The Guardian
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From Australia I have heard that everything is very casual in the U.K. as far as social distancing is concerned. Boris just ran Herd Immunity anyway in his usual bumbling manner.
Just wait until the rebellion against the legislation for compulsary mask wearing (without clarity), his fascist little kingdom will crumble and sleazy, sneaky Gove will step up to the plate and save the day,
At least that’s the plan….