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>My sense is that the UK will probably fold and institute a lockdown once their ICU capacity gets overwhelmed and healthy young people start dying in the streets. Either that or they'll face a revolution and then have a lot more problems. Of course, by the time it gets to either of those points it'll be too late to effectively change course.

Looks like that's already happening: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-uk-strategy...

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that article is pure gold, if it was the onion i wouldn't be able to tell.

> "We were expecting herd immunity to build. We now realise it’s not possible to cope with that," professor Azra Ghani, chair of infectious diseases epidemiology at Imperial, told journalists at a briefing on Monday night.

i can multiply numbers fifteen times in a row and come to that conclusion. alternatively, i can watch italian tv. did these people never looked up from their models to confront them with actual reality?

Truly incredible

How long did it take them to no longer expect herd immunity to build? 12 hours? That must be one of the most ridiculous acts of about-face in public policy in this generation.

> Looks like that's already happening

Is UK ICU capacity overwhelmed and are young people dying in the streets?

No.

Don’t spread rumours in this situation.

No, what's happened is they've already changed to a lockdown strategy, as the link above details.

There's still no lockdown in the UK, as of now

Yes, sorry, what I meant was that the lockdown was likely going into effect already, but not for completely apocalyptic reasons.

They aren't rumors. UK ICU capacity is already overwhelmed.

Nobody is dying in the streets of the UK. This is silly nonsense.

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