social darwinism

COVID-19 and the survival of the fittest (COVID-19 blog no. 7)

COVID-19 and the survival of the fittest (COVID-19 blog no. 7)

An early Government slogan summarising their strategy for the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was ‘herd immunity’. Whether this is a useful phrase for epidemiologists or not, the decision to use it by politicians is political.