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Originally Posted by downquark1
Boris' plan is the high risk high reward strategy which will be judged by if it holds or ends in disaster.
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Perhaps, but it is notable that HMG continues to get political cover from the most senior experts involved here. It is chief scientists and medical officers who are continually on the news explaining and defending the government’s strategy. Even in Scotland, where we have a first minister who finds it impossible to pass up the chance of a grand gesture or to exercise differentiation from England (and Tories in particular), the approach is near identical. Intervening to prevent gatherings of more than 500 people is the only significant difference in approach, and has been taken in order to free up emergency services personnel for other more pressing tasks rather than out of a fundamentally different weighing of the risk of further viral transmission. It pains me to admit it but Nippy Sturgeon is for once doing what she is handsomely paid for, and exercising devolved powers in order to best utilise the state services that are under her control, because they are organised in a way that best supports Scottish society and geography.