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100% on complacency although not sure how much of that is down to “we’ve no idea what to do” (which I get but it’s no reassurance when these are our leaders).
Completely irrelevant and focusing on the wrong things, but can you imagine comments from central government if local government acted like this.....
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If you're fortunate enough not to be dead you mean?
Not according to data from Italy which shows this is only if optimal numbers of beds/ventilators available. If our already strained system is overwhelmed we're looking at closer to 5%.
Stopping our system getting overwhelmed depended on testing and lockdowns, neither of which was prioritised over protecting the economy, will only make things worse for the UK.
If only 60% of the UK gets it (which is optimistic from where we are now) then 5% of that's 1950000 people dead instead of the best-case of 1% 390000. In that context, the government's response has been alarmingly complacent from my perspective...