Shield the vulnerable whilst allowing healthy people to go out and build up their own and heard immunity.
The NHS in Scotland has not been overwhelmed and to avoid a second peek in the winter months I suggest letting healthy people go out and about whilst shielding vulnerable groups, maintaining hand hygiene and practice social distancing. if they do contract the virus they will be less likely to require hospital services and should build up individual and herd immunity, thus benefiting all. Please enable these individuals to exercise free will whist equipped with the new skills and knowledge we have all obtained in recent weeks.
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I don’t believe that locking down everyone is going to produced the best outcomes, we must find a way forward that reduces the risks for all that includes people suffering and dying from covid 19, poor mental heath, domestic abuse, child abuse, suicide, poverty, starvation and those not receiving or coming forward for critical health care services. There is going to be risks moving forward which ever way we go but please let healthy people volunteer to in the same vain as those who came forward to support the NHS or take part in drug trials.
by Mosley on May 07, 2020 at 09:41PM
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Posted by RucksRus51 May 08, 2020 at 18:58
There is no evidence that once you have had the virus you won't get again, indeed our experience with other Coronaviruses suggests that any immunity is very short-lived, so herd immunity may not be possible to achieve.
In addition, if we only shield the most vulnerable we are inadvertently putting their health at greater risk because members of their household and family may become carriers of Covid-19 and unwittingly bring the virus into the home. Once people are given that "freedom" again they will start to believe that they are "Invincible" and they will slowly stop following the hand hygiene and social distancing will start to slip.
Finally, the UK government took a series of bad decisions at the beginning of this crisis, had we initiated lockdown on or around the 1st of February and followed a similar approach to that of New Zealand, thousands of people would still be alive today. We are on an Island and it's not difficult to keep a virus or other disease out. Please look at what the nations with a very low infection/death rate are doing and see what we can copy here.
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Posted by Cathol May 11, 2020 at 18:02
Why should the entire population be subject to one set of rules?
You will never please everyone so those you wish to continue lockdown indefinitely then let them.
Everyones circumstances differ and have different attitudes and perception of the risks.
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