Quote Originally Posted by Oracle View Post
But that is where I disagree.
The fact is the medics had differing opinions, and they still do. So at the time that decision was taken, it seemed sensible. Boris didn’t take the decision, his respected medical advisors did.

Even if it proved ill advised in hindsight, it didn’t in advance. It still could be that the formula followed proves to be the minimum death route. Nobody will ever know. So the word silly is at best unfair, at worst unjustified.
If a decision turns out to have been wrong, but only in hindsight, then people justify that decision - if it was wrong on the basis of information available at the time, then people deny having made that decision. This is what the government is doing. They know they made a bad - "silly" - decision.
I know life only makes sense backwards, I know what it is like to have to make decisions with very little information to go on.