Originally Posted by
Muddy Retriever
I partly agree with you, we saw what Covid could do back in the Spring. It's not my intention to downplay it.
However it isn't being left unchecked. We still have plenty of restrictions on daily life before the expected further constraints that will be announced today.
Also, I don't think it is helpful when our chief science and medical officers go on national television and wilfully misrepresent the facts. The number of cases aren't doubling every seven days, that is demonstrably untrue. Even if you were to say, well ok let's look at France and Spain, this is what it could do. France's cases seem to be doubling every three weeks and Spain's figures, don't appear to be even rising anymore having got nowhere near 35,000 cases per day (pro rata the 50,000 suggested for the UK when adjusted for population size.)
No wonder they didn't take any questions.