It will be interesting to see if the UK plan (let younger people get infected as much as possible while vulnerable people stay home) works in the end.
It does not sound like a good idea from my layman perspective, because if there is a minor glitch, everything falls flat or worse. For instance, if vulnerable people are not isolated well enough, or if younger people are not as invulnerable as we think they are.
Yeah, for as much as I've hated and still hate BoJo from the depth of my heart, I've been trying to set the despise aside and
level with him.
As far as I can understand the UK as a non-British person living here, is that they are really involved in keeping the people's mental health in check. Compared to Italy, where pretty much nobody gives a fuck how you feel, here there's a constant stream of "reach out if you woke up sad" kind of ads going on everywhere.
So when BoJo tells me that if the lockdown starts now we end up having at-risk people (elderly, sick, etc.) breaking down right when the pandemic is at-peak, I honestly believe him.
But at the same time, the strategy of the entire world is to buy time and spread the most serious cases apart to relieve pressure on hospitals, ICU, and health workers. And that makes a lot of sense to me.
So when BoJo tells me that we need to delay the lockdown until the pandemic is at-peak, I also think that for some reasons we are actively pursuing an early peak, and I wonder what the fuck will happen next week, when all the hospitals will be overloaded (they are at capacity right now), because the Brits really needed to cheer up with a pint at the pub, instead of staying the fuck home.