Hello, my friends,

This country here in the UK is working to suppress the COVID-19 virus through various lockdowns, such as 3- to 5-tier systems, and is naming them “circuit breaker” or “fire breaker”.

But over the last few months, this type of battle to rid the virus is not working, and the gimmicks of masking people and mobile apps for (test tracking and tracing) bring more fear into the UK society and bring out weak, panicked governments who lie constantly with false data, etc.

Now the government in England are beginning a full lockdown this week on the 5th November, and I think Scotland will follow suit.

Learn from Sweden

Like Sweden, we need to learn from them. Although Sweden was slow to protect older people at the beginning of the pandemic, it quickly protected them, along with other vulnerable groups.

Schools and Universities.

Here in the UK, we missed the chance when schools and universities went back to their studies, when they were young and fit, to achieve population-level, or herd, immunity.

The UK government flapped and locked university students in accommodation blocks. Suppose the UK government had the sense to protect the elderly and vulnerable individuals. Students could have lived as students, being part of a town or city’s community.

This could have been enough to infect young students and people returning to work in offices, etc. With the population recovering from COVID-19 and becoming immune over time, the elderly/vulnerable would be able to live normal lives again because the virus will be at a low level of infection.

Protecting the vulnerable until enough immunity has built up is not hard and is worth doing to get the UK moving again.

Reproduction Number

You will have heard of the basic reproduction number (Ro), where people with Measles can infect 16 to 20 people. The MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine is given at ages 1 and again at 3 years and 4 months, according to the NHS website.

Measles is highly infectious, with a basic reproduction number (Ro) of 16 or 20, and this would spread massively, which is why most young children in the UK are vaccinated with the MMR jab.

The flu is less transmissible and will infect 2 to 3 people per person.

So, we need the healthy communities in our towns and cities to develop antibodies, which are proteins made by the immune system cells to protect you from the virus attacking you again.