Nightingale Hospitals, Hospices or Workhouses? What is the Exit Plan?

Now that we’re about to enter a second lockdown in England, we should all be asking what the exit plan is?  Last week the Office for National Statistics announced that 568,000 people have had Covid.  In one way, that’s good news; if we can keep that infection rate up, we’ll all have had Covid within two years, so we can get back to normal.  If it’s an underestimate and more of us caught it in the first wave, we might even manage to get to herd immunity by Christmas 2021.  (I’ll come back to the “h” word later on).  But nobody else seemed to welcome the news.  Such is the level of fear which has been spread in the last year, that the very mention of these big numbers has been taken as evidence that we all need to lock ourselves down again.  Epidemiologists are being wheeled out with scary predictions of just how bad it will be.  Nobody seems to be giving any serious thought to how we might be able to live with Covid.

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