Prof Francois BallouxVerified account

I watched an interview where she argued for an uncontrolled herd immunity approach and was asked by the interviewer “would the NHS cope or would this lead to a lot of additional deaths?” and openly admitted it would be the latter but continued to argue for it anyway

She was never in any doubt about what she was arguing for and her recent claims to be concerned about the “protection of lives” are dishonest and an attempt to hide the reality of her arguments

To be fair, she's had about a year now, and the ear of the PM, yet still offers no workable way of implementing any sort of 'focussed protection'. FWIW I'm pretty sure that's because it's impossible.

You may be right that some targeted protection measures may be difficult to implement effectively. Though the most basic one of all, generous sick pay, is trivial to put in place, highly effective and would have cost less than some of the PPE contracts that failed to deliver.