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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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 It would simply come back when the lockdown was withdrawn.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.
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Nowhere had a vaccine at that point in time, Nobody ever said that lockdowns would stop the virus spreading merely slow it's spread and in turn allowing the NHS to manage patient flow as best as possible.
The infection rate started to come down? How do you work that one out? At that time we had targeted testing only, you have zero evidence to support that.