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The thing is, I know senior public health specialists working on covid-19 who disagree with your wife. It's a controversial approach.
They must be pretty fucking sure they are right to be pushing it.
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The UK has the largest pool of public health experts in the world.
Source?
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The UK has the largest pool of public health experts in the world.
That seems particularly unlikely, so would also like to see the source for such a bold claim.
Also, how many of this pool are directly involved with the government’s policy?
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'The UK has the largest pool of public health experts in the world. The decision to delay the closure of schools for example is to balance the benefits of containment whilst the reducing the risk of public complacency because of prolonged or premature containment policies. The disruptions to social and economic normalcy also have significant consequences which are too numerous to list. There is no Tory agenda with our method, the government is deferring to experts who have a well thought out plan. It's up to the government to convey the messages properly, their credibility issues notwithstanding. Finally, herd immunity is real and there are too many people who know don't know anything speculating and spouting off on a subject of which they have no real understanding. And they don't need to understand it anyway. Just follow the fucking advice of experts, we have plenty of them and their only agenda is public well-being. We're (the UK) are not being complacent.'
This !
How come the Internet knows better, the FA knows better, etc...
Listen to advice. We really are a county full of knobs. The real problem is, I think we know we are, we have got so used to listening to shite being spouted to us by all and sundry on the TV that when someone forthright and honest talks to us, we classs him the same.And breathe.....
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Ma wife is a public health expert specialising in infectious disease control. She isn't working with COVID-19 but her colleagues are and have been cited in this thread. Anyway, here's her opinion on the UK gov's response based on a several recent posts in this thread:
'The UK has the largest pool of public health experts in the world. The decision to delay the closure of schools for example is to balance the benefits of containment whilst the reducing the risk of public complacency because of prolonged or premature containment policies. The disruptions to social and economic normalcy also have significant consequences which are too numerous to list. There is no Tory agenda with our [current UK] method, the government is deferring to experts who have a well thought-out plan. It's up to the government to convey the messages properly, their credibility issues notwithstanding. Finally, herd immunity is real and there are too many people who know don't know anything speculating and spouting off on a subject of which they have no real understanding. And they don't need to understand it anyway. Just follow the fucking advice of experts, we have plenty of them and their only agenda is public well-being. We're [the UK] not being complacent.'