I haven't read a lot of today's posts, but I'd urge people to take responsibility for themselves. I am not a sensationalist person, I am a scientist, but people need to change their behaviour right now. The updated epidemiological report from the team that had advised the HMG on mitigation (herd immunity) says that if we now do last week's strategy, then the best case scenario would be 250,000 deaths in the UK.
They now propose what European countries are doing and they are saying that closing schools is the single most effective measure to slow down the infection.
This is has been a big failure of UK science, politics and probably of the media too (for failing to ask the right questions), but it's not the time for blame. There is nothing more wrong in persisting with a wrong strategy and there is a lot of merit in recognising your mistake and change quickly.
Unfortunately a big surge/tsunami is now heading for the ICUs of the NHS and there is nothing we can do to stop it. We could easily have hundreds of deaths daily before the end of this month/ What the govt and the people do now though will have a big impact on what will happen in April.
We need a complete shutdown now as the one happening in Europe. People should stop seeing (if they can) their elderly loved ones and vulnerable people and they should stop socialising.
Originally Posted by: xioni2