With respect mike: the government has had almost polar opposites in terms of advice from the medical community.
The oxford and imperial studies are massively far apart. It is acting on inevitably imperfect information , and a fog of wildly varying advice. It has appointed two well qualified professionals, and it cannot simultaneously go left and right. Dissenting voices are not helpful.
The government also has to try to avoid trashing the economy completely, a constraint the medical community never seems to even consider, let alone take into account. Every week that goes by, the worse the financial prognosis becomes.A population that is healthy but dies of starvation is not a success.
From the first reports the government were saying restrictions would come, nothing changed,
Germany is benefiting from a decentralised and far more privatised structure. I agree the labyrinthine nature of PHE and uppper echelons of NHS needs dismantling and replacing with something fit for purpose, but it won’t happen any time soon.
But then Scandinavian states are doing well, not locking down so far.
The reality is nobody knows , the government always said that it would be staged restrictions. There is no u turn I see, only journalists trying to play gotcha, and medics trying to play told you so. Neither of which is useful. The editor of lancet has proved little except his own arrogance in believing he alone knew best.
Yes we need testing , but considering the normal pathway of validation ( a Drug takes seven years , hundreds of millions, is likely to fail, and more or less uneconomic because of short patents) , expecting mass testing fast is unrealistic because of how trials work. There is an undeclared war going on for ppe, ventilators and reagents
The left and europhile dominated media are a disgrace. On the day macron seized a massive shipment of NHS destined ppe, from its regular supplier the media response was not to criticise France but to criticise own government for the lack of ppe!
Nobody knows or will ever know if the government made mistakes, because nobody knows what would have happened on a different path. Hindsight is 2020
We are living in the fog of war,
Originally Posted by Mike T
