Scientists urging caution on Boris are pursuing zero Covid by stealth
No Covid deaths wouldn t be good enough. They want lockdown prolonged until the disease is eradicated altogether
1 June 2021 • 9:30pm
What’s in a name? A great deal, it would appear, if it is attached to a coronavirus variant and considered an affront to national self-esteem. The Indian government has successfully petitioned the World Health Organisation to redesignate the strain B.1.617.2, more commonly known as the Indian variant, as Covid Delta. This is to avoid “geographical stigma”, though I don’t recall similar qualms being voiced about the Kent mutation, happily referred to in France as le variant anglais.
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Zero covid strategy is impossible… the future of the virus is more likely to follow the flu or measles
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Society will never learn to live with Covid like flu
Instead, the public will treat influenza more like coronavirus – which complicates things for those who argue against Zero Covid
18 February 2021 • 6:00am
The problem with wars is that pragmatism is often denounced as defeatism. So it is coming to pass with the common sense view that, once the vulnerable are vaccinated, we should cope with coronavirus as we do with influenza. It was always going to be difficult for the Tories to shift from valiant vows to “defeat” Covid to that gloomy gallop of the phrase “learning to live with it”. Such a pivot demands not just a level of political humility, but a drastic shift in the diagnosis.