On: London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decl...

[esotericn]

Yeah, I reckon that's fairly probable (the lockdown - not the second wave, I think that's inevitable, where the case numbers sit after that is yet to be seen though).

I figure we have N waves, with herd immunity building during the process, and an eventual vaccine which may or may not need to be applied across the whole population by that point.

[gshdg → esotericn]

And if immunity isn’t long lasting?

And how many people have to die to reach it?

[dan-robertson → esotericn]

Perhaps seasonal lockdowns will be the new solution to reducing nhs funding while not becoming overrun by flu cases in the winter.