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>>17805372
mild control measures so the disease slowly spreads throughout the population. Keep schools and workplaces open so people who aren't at risk of dying get infected and recover. Keep old people and other at risk groups isolated. When the next wave of corona inevitably hits a large portion of the population would be immune so vunerable people are less at risk. After a few waves the country will have herd immunity.
The thinking behind this is that putting cities under quarantine just delays the inevitable and once the quarantine is lifted everyone gets infected all at once and you're back to square one except now your economy is all fucked up

The whole thing is a big gamble because we aren't 100% sure if people become immune after getting infected or not and we aren't 100% sure if the disease causes long term damage to the body. If the strategy works as intended then the UK comes out of the pandemic much stronger than other coutries and the population will be immune if future outbreaks happen. If it doesn't work as intended then the UK has needlessly killed millions of it's own people in a science experiment