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Many of us here spelled it the fuck out.
A mere month or so back any suggestion that the UK should perhaps follow WHO guidance (test and trace the fuck out of this, isolate the infected and worst come to worst, lock down) was met with name-calling.
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The classic one:
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.'
sohi
We knew what would happen. Many of us here spelled it the fuck out. We had a living model in Italy and Spain of what would happen.
Hesitance from a leadership distracted by alternative-narrative bullshit means we had the best chance and performed the worst.