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Old 13-06-2020, 12:16   #3956
jfman
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
I don't think that's right at all. The government was following SAGE guidance throughout. The existence of the pandemic team would not have made any difference as they would still have followed the guidance of the scientists.
Not necessarily - scientists don’t get a blank cheque to create policy. A specialist group on pandemic preparedness could, theoretically based on their experience, have further interrogated scientific outputs and the evidence base. Perhaps leading to different outcomes based on their internal knowledge of Government preparedness.

There’s no blanket and uniform “the science”.
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