Thread by @michaelghead

SAGE have now put out a statement, highlighting that segmentation (trying to reach #herdimmunity by letting the virus rip through a population) is not a good idea.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
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This follows on from many other expert groups saying the same. And there has been suggestions that scientists are divided on this topic.
Individually and collectively, they/we're really not... here's a few more examples...

The WHO, who called the idea ‘scientifically problematic and unethical’.
who.int/news-room/q-a-…

there are of course the thousands of individuals on the John Snow Memorandum (if you're able to and haven't yet signed it, then please do so!)
johnsnowmemo.com

Independent SAGE have a report here - independentsage.org/a-deliberate-p…

Academy of Medical Sciences over here - acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/navi…

Over in the USA, there's the Infectious Disease Society of America - idsociety.org/news--publicat…

And there's Dr Anthony Fauci of course - cnbc.com/2020/10/15/dr-…

And numerous research and public health groups here - tfah.org/article/15-pub…

More groups here - johnsnowmemo.com/endorsements.h…

And also the Germany Society for Virology

g-f-v.org/node/1358

Those proposing herd immunity are very much outliers on a graph of expert opinion
(and incidentally those outliers also are backed by murky money coming straight out of Trumps America bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/cli…)

Whilst outliers are interesting to report on, and interesting to wonder why they are in the far-right corner of the graph, they're ultimately no use for policy and practice, since outliers are very unlikely to be right...

... particularly when everyone else who knows a thing or two about this area has pointed out the flaws in the plan.
Wrongness aplenty (with no justification) in the Great Barrington Declaration

And seamlessly, on that note, here's a Huffington Post article of how to be not right, but loud
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/journali…
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