Quote from: The Pharmacist on Today at 04:23:14 PM

What scares me is that it's the politicians who are making all the decisions, and they don't always tend to be scientific, even if the politicians are relying on scientific advisers.

My guess is that it'll be another couple of months of hysteria and then the virus will burn itself out--hopefully, and again that's just my guess. People are talking about how we're living in a different world now, but we really aren't. This isn't the first epidemic the world's faced, and IMO it could have been a hell of a lot worse. Imagine if the mortality rate for COVID-19 was a lot higher than it is. People would be locking themselves in their houses even more than they're doing now.

In my area there are still a lot of businesses that are still open, including some that I would consider non-essential. But we're doing alright in spite of that.

The herd immunity mentioned above is quite worrying. I'm in more favour of a CONTROLLED herd immunity where only people we know to be healthy can be given a dose of the virus - only then can we see a reduction in hospitalisations and death rate.

The government are taking the piss with their stay at home stuff only for essential work when we all know their work can really be done from home... I don't know why they were still going out... Stay in, but we're not. I don't trust the government in their views, our chief medical officer seems to be better versed but I hope there are several doctors discussing things. It's easy to forget work you've done in the past even when you spend a long time on it if it hasn't been refreshed recently.

I worry the government are going to try to kill off all the vulnerable people to try to make it look like they're fully funding the NHS and can keep making reductions there...