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Originally Posted by jfman

No, because there's no evidence that similar figures didn't enter other European countries. Neither does the evidence suggest they entered simultaneously as you frequently portrayed they describe a window across two months.

What that shows is that if we had implemented airport screening we could have caught 700 of them (give or take). Had we implemented a lockdown sooner, or cancelled major sporting events like Liverpool v Athletico Madrid before thousands came over the impact of the virus would have been reduced.

Surely you must believe these were now errors in retrospect?

Yes - but only in retrospect aka hindsight.