Originally Posted by
sinkov
I have no evidence one way or the other, but that figure of 250,000 seems to me errant nonsense. It assumes the population is completely braindead and would not have taken any common sense precautions themselves. Me and Mrs S had already implemented our own social distancing measures before being told to by the government, so would millions of others. The idea that the entire population would have carried on just as before as this virus ran amok is just laughable, some no doubt would, but the vast majority would have taken their own common sense measures, government instructions or not, 250,000 dead is scaremongering, pure and simple.