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Quite entertaining.
Also interesting to see how completely out of their depth some of the MPs are.
It was quite enlightening to see Hunt (for it is he) ask how it was possible that there could be up to 4,000 deaths a day given that the new treatments have reduced the morbidity rate by 50%. The answer (of course) was "Well, if deaths are doubling every n days then if you've halved the morbidity rate with medical advances then it only takes n days for that work to be undone as the deaths will just double, and this doubling just continues." I still don't think Hunt got it (which is depressing for a former health secretary).
Also the very young MP (Gavin?) who was trying to pin Whitty down to providing a false negative and false positive number for the various tests, despite it being mostly irrelevant to the modelling they've been doing.
Whitty and Valance have amazing patience.
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Just messaged a friend the saying the same thing, the level of patience they demonstrate is incredible. Seem's worrying how few of the MP's understand what SAGE's remit is and who does what. They seem to think SAGE should be doing a full cost benefit of national impact for every intervention and not understanding they don't choose the policies that land up getting implemented.
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Whitty and Valance have amazing patience.
I used to work in public affairs and I don't think your typical member of the public realises how thick a lot of MPs are.
The post-Cameron crop of Tory MPs are particularly 'special'. I wouldn't trust a lot of them to run a corner shop, never mind a constituency.
greentricky
Fox
Whitty and Valence currently taking questions in a select committee if that's your bag:
https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8bbb6325-cbfe-4025-9be9-5f50bc220c73