Comments by "F Liu" (@F_Liu) on "Coronavirus: do Boris Johnson’s measures go far enough? u0026 Broadway goes dark, Six the Musical" video.

The plan to let 80% UK population get infected is total madness, the herd immunity is not proven to work and it is just too risky because it will certainly kill many old and sick but also some of the young and strong as we have seen to be the case in China and Italy, the idea to use British people as part of this ''experiment'' is just inhumane and insane, I guess when these psychopaths politicians put money ahead of people's lives this is nothing surprising as they have always been doing, what a shame!
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@finney67 Yes, this is totally insane, these are real people we are talking about!
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@Knoxode5 Fatality is only 3%? This is 30 times of the death rate of flu. It is 15% for over 80s, 8% over 70s, 3.6% over 60s and this is China's figure bearing in mind that very strict quarantine measures had been taken from early on in a 11 million city, so if the spread was left uncontrolled the death rate would have increased by many folds as the healthcare system would just not cope. Italy's death rate is much higher about 6% at the moment, and that is when Italy is supposed to have the second best healthcare system in the world. NHS has half of ICU capacity of Italy and any Brits will know that it barely even function well on a Friday night, let alone if it has to face what Italy is facing now. Problem is the herd immunity for this virus is not yet proven, no solid study has been done about the effect of antibodies, how long it last and so on. The right way to get herd immunity is through vaccine which will take at least a year from now. So yes this plan is a crazy experiment a gamble with people's lives.
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@Knoxode5 There is also a severe and critical case rate of 20%, yes 20% need oxygen support and ventilators and out of those 50% die! This is what is happening in Italy right now and also what happened in China! Many people also spend more than a month in hospital needing various medical support, and many mild cases turn to critical cases rapidly during the second week as disease progress so needing medical support as well, so a lot of hospital beds required, NHS WILL NOT COPE, end of!
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@AlexanderJames-gn5lb Yep, Britain's current plan saves neither life nor economy, this slow killing both is not a successful way out, you are completely right! Since the global economy is already suffering huge loss at least we have a chance to save lives as we need people to be well and alive to build the economy back, this given up cold blooded attitude of UK now is just shockingly unacceptable. You are totally correct it is not time to moan about inconveniences however disruptive to people's personal lives it is time to do the right thing it is not that difficult actually, if you look at China, 2, 3 months of staying at home, and saves millions of lives and it can be done!
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