Thread: Coronavirus
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Old 13-10-2021, 22:18   #7577
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
They knew that. BUT:

Sage was advising not to lock down too early because the fear was that people would get fed up and start breaking the rules just at a crucial point, when the infection rate started to come down, AND

We did not have a vaccine, and so lockdowns by themselves would not take out the virus. It would simply come back when the lockdown was withdrawn.

If the government was supremely confident that a vaccine was just around the corner, their decisions would almost certainly have been different.
When did you lock down OB?
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