Combatting Covid-19: The Keep it out! Kill it off! Strategy

The fundamental failure of Boris Johnson, his Ministers and his advisers has been the failure to implement the Keep it out! Kill it off! Strategy at a time when it was possible.

In the absence of an effective vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus the Keep it out! Kill it off! Strategy was the only approach available to the UK Government which would effectively protect UK citizens and residents.

In failing to implement the Keep it out! Kill it off! Strategy at the right time, Boris Johnson, his Ministers and his advisers have, in my view, caused thousands of avoidable deaths in the United Kingdom from Covid-19.

The Keep it out! Kill it off! Strategy has two basic components:

• Close the United Kingdom border to incoming traffic
• Find every case that has already entered the country and quarantine infected and infective individuals

In future posts I will elaborate on how each of the above two points may be modified to accomodate practical issues such as ensuring the continuing importation of food.

If Boris Johnson had implemented the Keep it out! Kill it off! strategy at the right time, UK residents would have been spared the current (partial) lockdown, thousands of deaths would have been avoided and the cost to the Treasury would have been much less than the costs to the Treasury of Boris Johnson's half-baked (and dangerous) "policy".

It seems likely to me that Governments around the world will seriously consider having the Keep it out! Kill it off! Strategy as part of their contingency plans for future possible pandemics.