It surprises me how many people are prepared to lap this up.
Come on guys - I'm a Tory voter on here questioning the executive I supported - yet the opponents are only intent on critiquing my input.
It's puzzling.
Mike T - you use "infected" and "has the virus" "catching the virus" which are questionable at the very least. But you don't question them at all.
React 1 - a scheme dreamt up to assist Imperial in backing up their previously made claims.
Policy direction was set by Imperial, endorsed by the 7 or so mathematicians on SAGE and re-enforced continually by Imperial.
They are marking their own work.
These are home test kits sent out to volunteers. The evidence gleaned from these home testing swabs would not stand up in court.
(Did you note the Boots one at £120 was paraded as being so precise, at just over 97% accurate)
There is so little clear evidence to go off out there it is impossible to glean anything from it other than the number of deaths of people with Covid is on the rise again.
Even that figure has question marks over it.
As for the R number, if the level of R in the community is as they have set out since the early stages of the pandemic (4, moving to 2 around lockdown then down to 0.7 and now back up to 1.5 with a re-infection time of 5 days) then around 140 million infections would have taken place by now.
