A few posters here have spent the last 6 weeks telling us to panic; one or two for longer than that. Repeated demands for disproportionate and excessive interventions that completely ignore both the practical challenges and the social and economic impacts.
There will always be people with a reasonable knowledge of the subject offering a different opinion; that’s neither a new phenomenon nor unexpected. It doesn’t mean the government’s actions to date have been wrong.
The head of the WHO stressed yesterday the need to strike the right balance. Based on where we are now it’s difficult to argue the measures haven’t been about right.
It was always clear that the ‘delay’ phase was in the plan and that the strategy was to manage the epidemic because preventing one has never been an option if you understand epidemiology.
Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White