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by xadoc 2288 days ago
There is no proof immunity will happen, the UK Gov is thinking in economic terms and worried about GDP.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/13/coronaviru...

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Exactly. We have huge debts and our "economy" runs on the assumption that, if very little goes wrong, we might be able to stay afloat.

The time for creating choice on the cornonavirus response was during the last 20 years. They chose rampant financialisation, leveraging future income.

The UK has no energy security. No food security. I feel the corner we have painted ourselves into makes a prolonged shutdown far, far harder.

Genuinely curious about where you read that the UK has no energy security? It's not something I've read about before, but is something I'm pretty invested in as a UK citizen.

The one source I could find was https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/energy-security-risk-i... which placed the UK in the top 3 countries for energy security (many years running).

Do let me know if you have some data that would change my mind! (and ditto for food security)

I fear that when the PM said that his decisions are driven by science, he means economists, not virologists.
If immunity doesn’t occur, then a vaccine is also useless.
It's two different things
No it isn't. Vaccines create immunity, that's the point. Also, what diseases that don't kill you also don't result in immunity? "There's no evidence of immunity" seems an absurd statement, we can literally see the antibodies people create in response to the infection. That seems like just looking for an excuse to attack the UK.
do you ever heard of plague?
What's plague got to do with it? Plague vaccines exist that give up to a year of immunity:

https://contagions.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/generating-immun...

Flu vaccine has to be taken every year.
That's because flu isn't a single disease, it's a category of diseases, like cancer. People do build immunity to specific flu variants.