Suppression, Manipulation or Elimination?

 


Do we manage an  infectious epidemic by the following key ways, or are there more alternatives?

1.   Allow continuing leakages of Covid 19 into the local community - and provide cause of having to allow for sufficient economic activity and minimal restriction of physical freedom for human beings.

2.   Allow continuing leakages of Covid 19 into the local community  - and manipulate the situation for socio-political purposes like increasing controls over the population for self empowerment purposes.

3.  Strictly disallow leakages of Covid 19 into the local community - go hard, go early to strictly impose lockdowns  aimed for short time periods and target for elimination of the Coronavirus>

4. Allow leakages of Covid 19 into the local community and raise expectations of relying on Vaccines as the saviour to be utilised on a mass scale.

5.  Always quote reliance on medical and scientific advice, but selectively take such ideas to fit into what authorities already want in Covid management.

6.  Allow leakages of Covid 19 from granting exemptions and exceptions, of rules otherwise imposed on the general population, for individuals and groups with special connections to the authorities. 

7.   Promote vaccination and testing preferences in covert collusion with Big Pharma, hidden agendas and for commercial gain.

8.   Do not allow leakages of Covid 19 into the local community at all - impose a few months of complete border closures.

9.   Do not allow leakages of Covid 19 into the local community by strictly banning entry of flight passenger arrivals from high risk countries.

10.  Do not allow leakages of Covid 19 into the local community by using more of ring fencing strategies over small hotspot areas where cases are detected, instead of imposing restrictions over other areas not yet affected by infections.

11.  Allow for spread of Covid 19 as the infections are already out of control.

12.  Allow for spread of Covid 19 to ultimately achieve herd immunity in the population. 


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