Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
Our government was aware of it, had conducted planning exercises and was deemed to be one of the best prepared countries in the world.

None of the above helps with a population that has little or no experience of dealing with a stealthy, easily transmitted virus with a high mortality rate, however. Take a look through the posts on this board an you find posters who were comparing Covid19 to 'flu and moaning about restrictions placed upon them. A population that had experience of SARS and MERS would be far less likely to do that. Look at Japan, where the government had no power to impose a lockdown, but the population did it anyway.
I think you're being too generous and conciliatory to the govt and UK health advisors.
A more aggressive approach would have reduced deaths and reduced the lockdown period. It would also have led to a reduced impact on the economy which we are yet to feel the full effects of.
I'm not sure how allowing Cheltenham and Anfield would be deemed best prepared.
It's not acceptable for our govt to say it's never happened here before so we did our best.