Quote Originally Posted by billy.ronson View Post
So does the new strain knock "Herd immunity" on the head? Forget politics, (England, Wales and Scotland leaders are all different parties and none have succeeded in controlling the virus) the UK has done an awful job of dealing with this virus since day one. A pity the EU and other countries didn't lock us down in spring when this first started or in the summer when people were flying everywhere to create these new strains!!

This is a part of this whole thing which has always baffled me. A brand new lethal virus arrives on the scene at the end of 2019 and within no time we have all sorts of people stating with great certainty what will be happening in the coming months and years. Even genuine experts when it comes to the science surely could not have been totally sure what was going to happen, yet throughout 2020 we have had people on this football messageboard who have claimed they know precisely what is happening and what will happen.
I'm not an expert, but, as far as herd immunity goes, the same question has always occurred to me and I'm unaware of it ever having been answered. If we've been living through the first wave of a new virus, how can the sort of people who got to make what is now looking like a disastrous decision in Sweden have been able to say for certain that you will not get Covid once you've had it? There is evidence of people catching the virus twice, so, even if this is only happening to a small number, doesn't this knock the whole concept of herd immunity on the head?