Coronavirus

[Muddy Retriever]

Yeah I think the doubling thing, like the old rice on a chessboard parable, was just said to jolt the general public into taking things much more seriously to be honest.

The trouble is, if the real figures now turn out in a few weeks time to be stupendously lower that ‘illustrated’, will they be able to sell that as their early warning having the desired effect or will they just be laughed off the stage for scare-mongering?

To be fair, the new measures when they came were much less stringent than expected and I doubt they will have that much of an effect one way or the other. So by mid October we should be able to judge whether their warnings were justified or simply scaremongering.