O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[TheBlackHorse]

... we're in danger of having a discussion here ! ...
the consensus medical view last March was that the virus could take up to 10/12 days to emerge if you were positive; and that testing was wildly inaccurate, so checking flight arrivals would be useless. So do you believe our scientists were wrong/useless/confused? Do you believe overseas scientists were smarter or the masks and their testing was for placebo effect? In any event will we ever know the extent to which flight arrivals brought in the virus- guess many did. Easy with hindsight to say we should have stopped all arrivals; but at that time there were so many displaced persons you can imagine the clamour from mardy Brit's! ...

[countygump]

Seems we now have a single dose vaccine.


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coron...?ocid=msedgdhp

[BanjoPie]

Seems we now have a single dose vaccine.


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coron...?ocid=msedgdhp

I would prefer to keep topping it up - a bit like I do with wine

[Mapperleypie]

... we're in danger of having a discussion here ! ...
the consensus medical view last March was that the virus could take up to 10/12 days to emerge if you were positive; and that testing was wildly inaccurate, so checking flight arrivals would be useless. So do you believe our scientists were wrong/useless/confused? Do you believe overseas scientists were smarter or the masks and their testing was for placebo effect? In any event will we ever know the extent to which flight arrivals brought in the virus- guess many did. Easy with hindsight to say we should have stopped all arrivals; but at that time there were so many displaced persons you can imagine the clamour from mardy Brit's! ...

Where was the scientific consensus that said checking flight arrivals would be useless?

Australian borders were closed to all non-residents on 20 March, and returning residents were required to spend two weeks in supervised quarantine hotels from 27 March last year, a pretty strange policy to adopt if the scientific consensus was that this would be useless. These same principles were discussed by Sage in their 27 April 2020 meeting and apparently implemented by the government on 10th May - but as with all things COVID this was completely half-arsed, there was no supervised quarantine. Sage at that time always had a redacted name on the minutes, I can only assume this was honest Dom 'herd-immunity, eye-test drive' Cummings. The fullness of time is not going to be kind to him or the pathetic yes men that make up the cabinet. Many more lives could and would have been saved had we actually followed the science. The stupidest part of it all is this half-arsed approach is that it has not even saved the economy, we are having the deepest recession of any major western economy.