I have already said in previous posts, as I think MM has too, that keeping this virus out of the UK completely as long as it existed was not realistic or feasible. I don't think anyone here, be it MM, me or anyone else has tried to argue at any point that it was.
Where I do think MM has a fairly strong point with which I have agreed is that our goverment could and should have done more a couple of months ago to mitigate against the disease, rather than prevent it, once it reached our shores, which was always pretty inevitable. We are now trying, rather belatedly in my book, to mitigate against it now, but it is going to be one hell of an uphill battle by the look of the way things are going.
Re border closures and whether this should have been done in January: It is my own view, based on no more than plain common sense, that had this country decided in mid-January to close borders with all nations which were known to be affected by the virus at that time, we may have been facing a less grim situation than the one we are now facing. Sure, there would have been an economic hit to this country had that been done and possibly still a human cost of the virus to some extent, but I am fairly sure that both would have been rather less serious than what we are now looking at.
It's all fine and well for people to talk about going by scientific evidence, but how about applying to good old common sense too?
Originally Posted by: David M Porter