I& #39;m seeing a lot of claims, including from colleagues, that the UK Gov intentionally tried to kill a fraction of the population with a nefarious #COVID19 & #39;herd immunity& #39; experiment. This is simply not true and such conspiracy theories are damaging for the fabric of society.
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Errors may have been made in the UK and other countries in the early stages of the #COVID19 pandemic but this was an exceptionally challenging situation to deal with from the start. I suspect that anyone who claims otherwise is not in command of the facts and evidence.
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It is understandable that emotions run high during a pandemic and it is in the human psyche to try to find culprits for traumatising events. However, the UK (and other countries) need to get together as a society at this stage and accusations of wilful murder do not help.
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I& #39;ve repeatedly tried over the last two months to explain from an epidemiological angle why there was no nefarious & #39;herd immunity& #39; conspiracy. Here I will attempt another approach, which at the risk of being distasteful, might be effective.
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If we assumed & #39;ab absurdo& #39; that the UK Gov had wished to kill a section of the population, we may wonder who& #39;d they target. #COVID19 is disproportionately lethal for the elderly, and the elderly disproportionately vote conservative. Thus, they& #39;d kill their voter base ...
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I& #39;m not British, don& #39;t hold an advisory role to the UK Gov at this stage, have no affinity to the current UK Gov, and may lose my right to work in the UK, post-Brexit. As such, my motivation for writing this thread should not be coloured by any personal vested interest.
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