Quote Originally Posted by 1959_60 View Post
Question is Outwood, if the buck stopped with YOU, who would you go to for advice?

I bet you would take guidance from the chief medical officer. Luckily, our PM is doing that.

There will always be people who think that we should do the opposite of what the experts say, but they are our best hope in national emergencies and if we don't listen to them then who the hell do we go to for advice?
I think that one of the best lessons I was ever taught at school was to take a healthily sceptical approach to any opinion I was presented with no matter how great an authority it appeared to have. I have some cause for concern about this medical advice as indeed I had for the so-called expert legal advice given to Tony Blair about the legality of the Iraq war. I am not dismissing it out of hand but I think it should be viewed rightly with a degree of caution. I might follow the guidance but I would certainly not accept it without demur.