TheDecameron
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I take back what I said about this government being incoherent- the opposite is true. It’s Herd 2.0 -driving the unvaccinated into superspreader events.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...vid-to-prepare-for-winter-sage-adviser-claims
My theory is they want to accelerate COVID transmission to get it out the way well before the next election. Money and politics over public welfare.
“What we are seeing is a decision by the government to get as many people infected as possible, as quickly as possible, while using rhetoric about caution as a way of putting the blame on the public for the consequences,” said Prof Robert West, a health psychologist at University College London who participates in Sage’s behavioural science subgroup.
“It looks like the government judges that the damage to health and healthcare services will be worth the political capital it will gain from this approach,” West said, adding that ministers appear to believe the strategy is now sustainable – unlike last year – because of the vaccine rollout”.