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This entirely.
@Sifta
Italy and Spain had relatively little time.The UK effectively had some advanced warning. This could have been used better.
Italians told us “No, it may seem so, but you’re wrong”, but either through isolation or arrogance it wasn’t heard. A fortnight later we’d be saying the same to Americans.
miro_o
Sifta
Problem with the "but with our population density we didn't have a chance!" response is that 1) outside of London, our population density isn't that high, it's just a standard trope of the Kippers that it is and 2) if it IS high then that's a reason to go into lockdown earlier, harder - unless our population density suddenly shot up just as C19 started spreading then it wasn't (couldn't have been) a surprise, so should have figured in the planning and response.