Dutch President Announces Herd Immunity Strategy Against the Corona Virus

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That strategy might work if

1) Risk groups like elderly and sick can be effective protected while the disease spreads among others.

2) The disease provides long lasting immunity, there are no mutations.

I think the #1 is really big if. When the disease spreads, it's in door knobs and corner shops and everywhere were elderly and sick still have to visit.

Different countries are taking different strategies and citizens can compare results. Dutch politicians in the government should that they are taking huge personal political risk if the strategy fails.

i had to tell my international tenants they are quite possibly safer back home.

where are you?

netherlands

Push your grandma under the bus in order to save profits of KLM and local coffee shop.

Dutch "coffee shops" have closed.

> The lady with the coffee bar on the corner, the flower grower, the independent haulier, the self-employed person.

> But even national icons like KLM are feeling the strain.

Once all this is over (COVID) it'll be quite a relief to get back to the usual 500,000 deaths per year from influenza (according to WHO) which doesn't seem to elicit much interest normally.

Those deaths cannot be treated effectively by the healthcare system (even under best-case conditions), and cannot be contained either because the flu is seasonal, mutates rapidly and has lots of established reservoirs. COVID-19 is very different and we can do a lot better.

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