no expert but aren’t the figures on herd immunity a bit misrepresented. There’s herd immunity in a population taking no precautions. And there’s herd immunity when the most vulnerable continue to hid… (View Post)

What do you mean he’s “taking decisive action”? He’s not taking any action. He doesn’t have the power to. He’s certainly been encouraging people to go on “one last bender” for weeks now though. (View Post)

The basic crux of your argument seems to be “we shouldn’t have opened up, when numbers were very low (and falling). We should have waited a month or so for numbers to still be very low. Ignoring the … (View Post)

This is absolute nonsense. Your argument seems to be that only full national lockdown can reduce R rate below 1. Whereas any restrictions short of full national lockdown cannot. But it's not eve… (View Post)

How about this. First time round university students were in the middle of their (final) term (of the year). There wasn't necessarily a route for significant base infection of the population, an… (View Post)