I'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 'herd immunity' 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've repeatedly tried over the last two months to explain from an epidemiological angle why there was no nefarious 'herd immunity' conspiracy. Here I will attempt another approach, which at the risk of being distasteful, might be effective.
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If we assumed 'ab absurdo' that the UK Gov had wished to kill a section of the population, we may wonder who'd they target. #COVID19 is disproportionately lethal for the elderly, and the elderly disproportionately vote conservative. Thus, they'd kill their voter base ...
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I'm not British, don'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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