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6-8 months is rapid! That's 40+ million cases during that period and impossible to manage for the health services. This is actually a fast burn. Everyone agrees on that.

Whether eradication is possible or not, the FACT is that 6-8 months is extremely fast and can only lead to a collapse of the health services.



I agree it is far more rapid than we’d like, but the options are not clear cut, there is no good choice with a guaranteed outcome, as this article indicates, experts disagree significantly on how to approach this, and due to a lack of data we will not know till after the fact.


One option leads to the inevitable collapse of the health services. That much is clear cut.


The UK gov and their scientific advisors disagree with you or they’d be taking a different course. This really is not clear cut, if we’re being honest, nobody really knows at this stage, there are too many unknowns.


It is clear cut and the government does not necessarily disagree with me.

Handling that many cases over that short period is simply mathematically impossible considering the health care resources available. That is not an opinion, even the Health Secretary acknowledged that today.

They took the course they took knowing that.




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