‘Herd immunity’ will not work, people need to adhere to Covid-19 measures - Yorkshire Post Letters

ONCE again, we hear from “experts” advocating that the virus should be allowed to run its course to achieve “herd immunity”.

Let the young live their lives and the elderly and vulnerable should shelter away, whilst the rest return to “normality”.

How normal will it be with a significant proportion of the population disengaged from society?

At what age do they shield? The risk rises significantly after 50.

So all the bus drivers, train drivers, shop workers, taxi drivers over 50 should perhaps shield?

And the same for teachers and university lecturers, let the young ones teach the students.

Apprenticeships – no seniors passing on their skills, let the young ones do that.

These so-called experts no doubt live in large homes with huge gardens, highly paid and well able to protect themselves and their families from the effects of the virus “running its course”.

No consideration for the vast majority of the population, living in more cramped conditions, terraced housing, many young still living at home with older family members, unable to afford to buy or rent their own place.

How are their families to be protected?

How different the youth of the 1940s were, prepared to sacrifice their lives to protect their parents, grandparents and their way of life,

So unlike the all too many snowflakes of today, who want it all and care little about anything else.

This is not the only country affected and all other countries with similar infection levels are taking the same measures to slow the infection rate.

Did we have herd immunity from smallpox?

Do we have herd immunity from Ebola or HIV, or measles, mumps and rubella?

No, we have treatments and/or vaccines to prevent, or at least reduce the effects, that these infections have.

It is not the measures the Government is taking that is the problem.

It is the fact that all too many are failing to adhere to them.

You only have to look to Singapore, South Korea and, yes, China.

Failure to follow the rules is not tolerated and they are strictly enforced, allowing their economies to remain open and business to function near normal.

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