Pandy, regarding your link



Often read Guardian articles (mostly on the web as I don't 'do' newspapers these days) ..... I'm very wary of their 'opinion' section however ..... they seek out virulently anti-government contributors (no pun intended) and sidestep editorial responsibility because it's a sort of 'hyde park corner soap box' of the media world.

The guy may be right ....tho, saying this is a new virus and we can't have reliable knowledge of it ...then proclaiming with the certainty of appearing to know what it will do, criticising highly qualified teams that have been focussed on modelling this specific outbreak in our specific situation, seems contradictory

My concern with the heavy 'lock down' policy is that, unless you want to crash your economy and see mass starvation and civil unrest, you have to let all those unexposed people back on the street sometime fairly soon, such is the complexity and interdependence of our society ....and with the mobile nature of the modern world, re-introduction of the virus is pretty much certain ....back to square one ....it would be the ideal strategy if we were 4 weeks away from a reliable cure/vaccination ....that doesn't appear to be the case.

The UK position isn't 'do nothing and see who makes it' ....we're planning reduced contact and peak-flattening measures ...to be introduced when the monitoring and modelling says is the right time ....our teams of experts may be totally wrong but they may be totally right (or maybe somewhere in between) .... time will tell.

K