If those in power knew a Fall spike would likely occur, would it have made sense to encourage healthy people to seroconvert during the summer, when the flu is less prevalent? Instead, this was purposefully stretched into the flu season.
Why? Who benefits from fear and lockdowns?
It's almost never a good medical strategy to intentionally get ill.
Pox parties are extremely dangerous.
Also, catching Covid sucks for a lot of people, even if they survive. Encouraging people to catch it during summer seems pretty irresponsible.
Who benefits from fear? I'd guess weapons companies.
Who benefits from lockdowns? No idea. Pro gamers?
I can't really decide if you're posting here to stir up a reaction or if you are strongly convinced that seroconversion is a good idea. But just for the sake of discussion, you should consider that the chance of side effects is high enough that many people would actively resist seroconversion. So my guess would be that people who consider that to be a great idea are a 5% minority. That's why governments will likely not do it.
Japan did it. Japan learned from the docking of the Princess cruise there and the results from each passenger. Those results were quite interesting.
And death rates by age group are revealing. The young without co-morbidities have great prospects.
September Tokyo study said, "Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School, Boston, say their study suggests that seroprevalence for SARS-CoV-2 rose to almost 50% ..."
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200924/Tokyo-citizens-ma...
These are mainstream medical professionals from USA making findings that Tokyo is at herd immunity.
But when people suggest active seroconversion they usually mean that you start infecting otherwise healthy individuals deliberately to increase herd immunity.
So while both groups use the same word, they mean quite different things.
Well one part is incompetence. And the other is that a fall spike was just a hypothesis. We didn't know for sure.
We did not encourage healthy people to seroconvert during the summer because achieving the necessary numbers of infected would have caused millions of deaths. This was the UK's original plan and they backed off when they actually ran the numbers and saw how many fatalities it would require.