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Old 28-05-2020, 10:31   #3570
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
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However, Neira has called for "great caution" and "common sense" in this "very critical" phase of the pandemic (de-escalation), and, in statements to RAC-1, has requested that the population should not be paranoid nor should they relax too much, but they should "learn to live with infectious diseases ".
Sounds very much like "stay alert" to me, you know the very much ridiculed and supposedly confusing message from HMG.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
I think the second sentence is an important point:
the first sentence is also important:

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David Spiegelhalter, Winton professor of the public understanding of risk at Cambridge university, said: “If we can believe the data from other countries, then the UK has done badly in terms of excess deaths. The issues now concern what will happen for the rest of the year, and trying to understand the processes contributing to our large excess.”
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