If France, like Spain, and Italy, has chosen to implement containment measures for a few days or even a few weeks, the United Kingdom has opted for a completely different strategy in the face of the spread Covid-19 virus, which has been raging in many countries since early January 2020.
The British government has indeed adopted the strategy of collective immunity. But what does it consist of? Like Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said that the Netherlands will opt for "a plan including a controlled distribution" of the Covid-19 virus, leaders across the Channel have chosen, for the time being, to move towards the same scenario.
The goal of collective immunity is to make the population resistant to the virus. To do this, we are not trying to limit its spread among those least at risk, so that the virus becomes more and more difficult to transmit, due to the growing resistance of the population in question.
To justify the choice his country has made, Marke Rutte said in a recent statement that "Those who have had the virus are usually immunized afterwards, as was the case in the past with measles ".
The idea is therefore to limit movement and gatherings, to avoid populations at risk (the elderly, immunocompromised or who already suffer from chronic respiratory diseases) being exposed, but without requesting containment, so that the spread of the virus despite everything, and that the majority of the population thus develops their immunity.
But as some experts point out, mass immunity is usually won through vaccination. Vaccination, it is framed and allows to trigger the formation of antibodies, unlike the voluntary and uncontrolled exposure of the virus, which can be accompanied by a significant number of deaths, alert many specialists …
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