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Old 24-05-2021, 20:06   #5275
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
You're also asking me to hypothesise for a reality that doesn't exist. Which I will not do. There are plenty of countries managing the situation better than we were without vaccines - both in economic terms and public health terms.
You're not getting away with that, jfman. You constantly criticise the government for locking down too late, but it has been explained to you in previous posts why that lockdown did not occur before that time.

So, given that you are of the view (just to be argumentative as usual) that lockdown happened too late and they should have gone for it earlier, I think I'm entitled to an answer from you as to what you would have done next had you been making the decisions.

You don't have that answer, from which I think we are entitled to draw our own conclusions.

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Originally Posted by jfman;36080633[B
]Yet ignored alternative options[/B]. Which is the purpose of Ministers - to make decisions.t

I see no reason to allow my mind to descend into your fantasy where hapless politicians sit there and get scientists to tell them what to do. Ministers ask questions, set expectations, and that drives the analysis provided. This is a two way street not the one way street you portray.

As I say, one needn't have had to look far to see alternatives to keeping the economy open and pretending we would be different.
What alternative options?
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