by johnnyFive

...Britain’s response, unlike that of basically every other nation, was designed around accepting that almost everyone in the country — up to 80 percent of the population, according to one leaked document — will at some point become infected with the virus. [...] In practice, the Johnson’s policy would have meant that up to 7.9 million people would be hospitalized.

Assuming a 1% death rate, that would mean 500,000 people. Or as PM Johnson put it:

I must level with the British public...many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.