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Originally Posted by MTVN
It was never to let it spread through the population unfettered, the thinking was that that was inevitable anyway one way or the other but that it should be contained as much as possible when cases were low and then the spread delayed so that the spread of infection was manageable
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Contained as much as possible and herd immunity are pretty incompatible practices, and we definitely know that herd immunity was their 1st and preferred strategy. I accept that was revised after the dire projections started to come back in, but we all know what cummings said about sacrificing older people. A new virus spreading through a population full of new hosts is impossible to contain without the right actions to prevent the spread. The words don't match up with what actually happened, and I know some gov ministers to this day still refuse to say that herd immunity was ever even their strategy at all.