I propose that we advise those shielding to continue to do so for the meantime and we essentially 'lock off' care homes for the meantime in order to protect those who are most vulnerable of dying from this virus. Aside from this, I propose that the above changes should be made in order to allow us to switch to this more realistic and meaningful approach:
This approach would, of course, result in some preventable deaths, but that's just inevitable. The current approach is simply not working, we are placing the education of our children, the economy, and our livelihoods at risk, and I think it's time for some major change to come and for us to adopt a more realistic approach. There is practically no way that we can eliminate the virus given the number of cases and the rate we are easing the current lockdown, which simply means that, realistically, the only possible way to exit this pandemic is through achieving herd immunity. If a vaccine becomes available, then following this approach we would still have protected the most vulnerable and would be able to vaccinate them to allow society to return to normal more quickly, however, we need to realise that achieving herd immunity is our only way out and since a vaccine is not yet readily available (it may never) and our economy is already seeing huge damage caused from the current lockdown, we need to move to a different approach to minimise all-round damage and try to emerge from this pandemic as economically healthy as we possibly can.
