Money was put before people

“HERD immunity” is the latest political scapegoat.

What is wrong with the greatest number of people being immune? Some among us think it means mass murder!

What they are really arguing about is the most effective way to achieve the “holy grail” of epidemiology while a vaccine is unavailable.

Test, trace and isolate are used by the most successful countries, which also have wellfunded national health, social care and public health services together with pharmaceutical, diagnostic, therapeutic and medical equipment industries instead of, as in Britain’s case, creaking, criminally and deliberately run-down services, starved of investment over decades in pursuit of privatisation and a fast buck!

Britain’s slow response, given China’s gift of eight weeks’ notice, was due to its unforgivable dithering between effective public health protection and concern about the effect on the national economy.

Planning for workforce protection in health care, transport and distribution was woefully inadequate and current preventative measures among the wider public are so far behind the curve that a second wave of the disease remains an extremely dangerous possibility.

Demands to end lockdown and social distancing are driven by big business interests, which are now trembling at the reality of lost business and profit, and are a naked attempt to put their economic survival above the people of Britain.