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Originally Posted by nomadking
The South Korea experience with MERS, DIDN'T happen in the UK. That influenced SCIENTIFIC advice in the UK.
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Ah English exceptionalism. We don’t need to study global science. If it didn’t happen here it doesn’t count.
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queues outside KFC etc, clearly demonstrate those in UK are a bunch of morons and nothing will work.
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Government has said it’s safe to open.
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On which planet would people in the UK have allowed the things that were in place in South Korea? What other countries followed the South Korea example? Even South Korea didn't until recently.
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One where the alternatives are rolling lockdowns and a trashed economy.
South Korea didn’t respond to Coronavirus before Coronavirus.
What planet are you on?
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So it was just the UK?
February 2010 report
If you have to base a plan on absolutely everything that's even slightly possible, it just gets silly. You have to keep a sense of proportion, and base things on what is most likely to happen, and that in turn will be based upon what has actually happened in the past.
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As long as it happened before in Britain, obviously.