[jfman]

Originally Posted by Pierre

The Government is following to the letter, the advice of the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Science Officer. You are neither. you know nothing compared to them.

So you can bleat all you want.

Do other countries not have people qualified people of equivalent standing? Well they can't all be right.

You are unfortunately stuck in the colonial days, where Britainnia ruled the waves and Brits knew best.

Counting the cases is a total irrelevance, what difference does it make?

It can hardly be considered to be irrelevant to identify where cases are taking place to isolate the people and communities most likely to be carriers. Many, non-Conservative voters, and those in other countries would consider such actions prudent.

As of yesterday we had something around 500 confirmed cases, the Chief Medical Officer advised the true figure would probably be around 10,000.

We don't have the capacity to test everyone and we don't need to. Only the serious cases count now.

We don't have the capacity yes, need to? Well, the effective testing regime in South Korea appears to be working. Essentially, we have manufactured a reasoning to justify being underprepared for this eventually, and swallowing it. Indeed if we don't have an accurate count when do we deploy more serious measures as we approach the peak?

Which is why we have to stem the flow of infection so that there are enough intensive care beds for the most serious cases.

Yet, we are not actively stemming the infection.

It's not difficult to understand.

For you, it evidently is.

Around 70-80% of the UK will become infected,

Because this Government allows it.

the important thing

As defined by this Government

is now to ensure they are not all infected at once because the system will fail and more will die and that has nothing to do with the level of resource and investment in the NHS. The NHS would buckle in such a situation no matter how much money we had thrown at it.

What other countries have done or are doing, is irrelevant.

For a global pandemic what other countries do is entirely relevant.

Now stay at home, if you've been out wash your hands as soon as you get home and ride it out.

Stay at home isn't the advice. Go to work if you have no symptoms is the advice. Go to football matches - until of course a football manager got infected.