Friday, 4 March 2022

“Why not let Omicron just take its course” | My Letter

 

This is not the “let it rip” strategy. It’s the "focussed protection" strategy. Focus all our huge current efforts on those most in danger: the elderly and vulnerable. The same strategy as suggested in the March 2020 Barrington Declaration, which Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci of the US National Institute of Health determined to kill rather than debate. To censor out of the public mind. And now, two years later, it proves both prescient and correct. Ignored by our Hong Kong government, is all.  Which continues to pursue the one strategy that’s guaranteed not to work, the "Zero Covid” strategy.

ADDED: the online version is Hong Kong must accept its Omicron wave will be Lambda-shaped. No mention in the print version of my “Lambda” kind-of joke. (not v good, I admit).
One comment: Very well put Peter Forsythe. Learn from other countries. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/