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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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Yeah, she acknowledges that there are differing approaches. She's also not aware of what's going on on the front lines of treatment and is worried about the local governments' abilities to implement proper procedures. Nevertheless, her point is that this isn't being swept under the rug and there isn't some dark Tory agenda.
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They must be pretty fucking sure they are right to be pushing it
No one is sure
Just learning from China and S Korea
¡apesta!
skydancer
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.'