It would seem that the three amigos, the lying coward Boris Johnson and his two medical advisors have thrown the elderly and vulnerable under a bus. I’m midway through six chemotherapy sessions which will end in May. Without chemo I have a life expectancy of about three years. The chemo may give me an extra 22 months providing I have it now while ‘hormone sensitive’. Unfortunately, the UK government, uniquely, wants 60% of the UK population to be infected with covid-19 to build up immunity in the population. If I leave home the chance of me avoiding the disease and then surviving is pretty low. If I stop the chemotherapy I lose a potential 22 months of life.
The position of the the Tory government is extraordinary. Their plan is to allow the virus to kill off in the region of 400,000 people assuming 60% infection and 1% fatalities or about 1 in every 200 people. In China, at the time of writing there have been 3,177 deaths (www.worldometers.info/coronavirus) from a population of close 1.5 billion, about 2 in every million. Taiwan has only 50 cases and one death. These countries have tackled the virus at source and have contained it. The UK government is trying to save the economy not its people, (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/world/europe/economy-britain-coronavirus.html, paywall). Experimenting on a population, now when did we last hear of a government doing that?
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