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Yes, for the purpose of this discussion Peter Piot is part of our pool of UK experts. My wife isn't British either and has no interest in defending British institutionalism and definitely not this goverment but she's seeing the work that's being done to fight this virus and I've mistakenly introduced her to a world of know-it-all-pricks.
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I've mistakenly introduced her to a world of know-it-all-pricks.
You´re out of order. Who here said they knew better than the experts? I for one welcome her input as valuable and would be grateful for anything further she´d be willing to contribute with regard to said difference in approaches, estimated spread peaks and so on.
What I was driving at was that a number of experts (I´ve interviewed a number of them in this field) feel that there is no such thing as a UK /Finnish/Belgian pool. Just one big pool. I´d be surprised if Piot didn´t get a call from Brussels or take part in some teleconference called by the Belgians before they announced the lockdown.
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I've mistakenly introduced her to a world of know-it-all-pricks.
Also suggest she stays away from Twitter
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I feel your pain. I bet you didn't know there were so many virologists, epidemiologists, policy wonks, and doctors masquerading as bike nerds.
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My wife isn't British
Those foreign Tories are the worst. :)
NB I thought your post was very interesting. I've been reading a lot of what the experts have to say, but I still feel very short of an approach to understanding what the best method of tackling this might be, largely because I obviously don't know anything about the virus, so her input helps.
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I´d just like to add that it is usually the officials and politicans that make noises like "our pool of experts is the bestest" while the experts themselves just get on with the job and talk to other experts, wherever they may be. Finnish ones (officials, that is) are notorious for this. Here in Flanders I´ve read that the microbiology cluster here is the best in the world. Peter Piot, a Fleming, he of Ebola and HIV fame, was mentioned upthread, although I suppose nowadays he´d be counted as a member of that British pool as the good baron (yes that´s right bitches) works for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.