I remember that well, but I thought the problem there was that the disease wasn't really understood.  There's a fundamental difference between omission and commission.

But my point was that the medical and scientific community wouldn't have been silenced in the way that occurred in China. I think it's a stretch to suggest there's any equivalence, TBH.

I still don't understand why they shut domestic borders, but kept international ones open?

I agree the suppression is harder to keep secret in the West so the scale is less. You say the mad cow virus wasn't understood well as if this novel Corona virus is! I wouldn't argue that some of the stuff isn't true about China but I'm not convinced it's that much more willful than a lot of stuff going on in the West.

I can see why the priority was Wuhan, as the epicentre and that proved sensible. Why they didn't shut the international borders I don't know and I still don't know why we didn't.

NHS England has reported 327 new hospital deaths down from 370 yesterday

Last Sunday. NHS England reported 336 new hospital deaths

Hmm. Would of thought it would be a little lower than that from last week. Still in the right direction though and shouldn't take one day in isolation.

Perhaps perhaps the world would have acted quicker if they had. By then, the 'horse had bolted'!.

There actually seems to be near consensus among molecular virologists that this virus has not been manipulated, however this doesn't exclude the possibility of an accidental release of a wild sample.

Breakdown of the 327 new hospital deaths in England by date

• 56 on May 2nd


• 125 on May 1st


• 43 on April 30th


• 95 between April 1st and April 29th


• 8 in March with one on March 28th

Does he still go by the name of Michael Green?

Yes, we could have locked the front door to keep the burglar out, but we chose not to. And we allowed flights from Italy to keeping coming even though we knew the virus was rampant there, and no attempt to quarantine anyone, and we are still allowing people to fly in with no checks!

Just imagine the papers if Corbyn had done this

Instead, page after page of Boris the hero and his perfect baby (born to a mistress half his age, after he left his 2nd wife in the middle of her cancer treatment)

This country and its people are a joke

Coronavirus ‘a wake-up call’ to those who disvalue farmers

I thinks it's worth hammering home this one again on a quiet Sunday afternoon.

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/coronavirus-a-wake-up-call-to-those-who-disvalue-farmers-says-nsa

Nick

I’m just hoping this pandemic wakes us up to what we can produce ourselves in the UK, both in farming and in manufacturing.  I think people are starting to realise how fragile our supply chains are and how much we’ve come to rely on imports.  Maybe a renewed ‘Buy British’ campaign will help our economy when lockdown is lifted. 

What is the significance of 'one on March 28th'?

Are you programmed to report at the end on《oldest date》 so the other 7 were March 29th, 30th and 31st? 

That has to be the biggest error of judgement that any government has made at any time since this crisis began.

Had the Chinese done what they should have done and closed their external borders at the same time they shut their internal ones once they knew what the problem was, then IMHO it is likely that the effect the virus had on the rest of the world would have been much less severe than it has been.

Actually 2 on March 28th, 4 on 29th, and 1 each on 30th and 31st.

https://twitter.com/RP131/status/1256934553962401800/photo/1

76,496 coronavirus tests yesterday

4,339 new cases

14,248 in hospital down from 14,695

315 all setting deaths in the UK

Michael Gove: measures to "make love in the workplace safer" 

I thought I heard that too!!!! 

Glad it wasn’t just me. Massive LOL. 

Daily slides

Daily tests

New cases

People in hospital - London is now below the north-west

Critical care

All settings deaths with the 7-day rolling average