Coronavirus

[Oracle]

Meanwhile today’s absurdity.

The telegraph lambasted the government today for way overestimating the numbers of beds needed hence the nightingales are empty. Exactly the Same press that lambasted the government for not nearly enough ventilators or intensive care beds only a couple of weeks ago.

Meanwhile it isn’t the government anyway, it is a consensus of medical advisors headed by Chris Witty who are faced with a ten to one opinion difference from medical models at imperial or oxford and others. Even US universities are chiming in with figures that differ from those about us.

And whatever the government chooses from the mayhem of medics who can’t agree, the rest of the medics all feel empowered to say that whatever their peers chose to do was wrong, and the “ government” is making a pigs ear of it. All use the word “ could” not “ will” to avoid being told their criticism was wrong in hindsight.

Reality is nobody knows. It’s not an exact science. I have no argument with the variety of obinions BUT nobody has the right to play holier than thou.

It used to be said of economists, that get ten economists together you would have eleven opinions.
Epidemiologists have well trumped that. It is fun looking at journalists who look back through what they said and point out that these medics in all too many cases contradict what they said only one month before, I’ve seen a few.

Streuth.

If I were Boris I would lock them all in a room and tell them they don’t get fed until they come up with a consensus they all stand by, including BMC, and the insufferable lefty loony John Ashton, with no right to dissent later. If they all choose to starve “ on principle” , for the right to dissent, good riddance, there are plenty more where they came from!