Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post

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.
Maybe its a bad cop good cop thing; the scientists go in yesterday and paint a purposely scary picture and then Boris waltzes in today and comes across a bit more reassuring? For sure I do think far too many people, especially pub goers after they've had a few, had become dangerously blazé about it all. Hopefully the cock sureness "it won't effect me" attitude might not be so common place now?