hypochondriac

Pot meet kettle!!!

Conversely, Johnson's response as informed by the experts could save thousands of lives and still the usual suspects on here woild be slagging him off. You don't have a clue about what the correct strategy is yet tmypi are the one mouthing off in every other post about how awful the UKs response is.

That's a viral post from twitter yesterday by a professor.

I think what they are thinking is that by introducing more draconian measures at a later point you'll be able to make them stick more effectively for a shorter period without overwhelming the NHS. It's a big assumption though and if their initial inaction leads to more deaths than necessary they will get slaughtered for it. I assume these experts are staking their careers on being right so it's not a path they would be taking lightly.

There's currently too many unknowns. Much depends on the assumption that the Chinese part of the pandemic is now over. If it resurfaces again in China and South Korea then clearly that's a different situation and I'm guessing no one really knows at the moment.

We don't have all the data, we don't know what the best strategy is for the UK based on the availability of beds, the age of the population, our behaviours, the desire to keep deaths in the medium and long term to a minimum. You know precisely nothing about the qualifications of the team of people advising our current strategy which is based on our very specific set of circumstances. In your weird little world it's the evil tories led by Boris making this sort of thing up as he goes along when the reality is clearly the complete opposite of that. Our strategy may be wrong but it is clear that the people actually qualified in epidemiology in the UK have not spoken out publically against the current strategy and we have clear reasons for doing what we are doing. Putting it another way, do you really think that the government would do something so different from other countries without following clear advice and without a clear justification? Why would they take the political risk of just doing something different for no reason? Very obviously they are being advised by extremely qualified experts about what to do. Like I said, you just hate it because there's a Conservative government in charge, let's just be glad that the likes of yourself and most of twitter aren't in charge of anything.

You've said there are three letters. Kindly show me which letter you are referring to so we can discuss it properly. Presumably you are referring to a letter that contains signatures of individuals who are more qualified to discuss this strategy than the team of scientists that the government are following.

Where did I refute that there was a link? You need to be clearer about which specific letter you are talking about that is signed by experts who are more credible in this field than the team of epidemiologists currently shaping the government's response.

Whitty and Vallance- people who head up a team of many scientists- have no talent other than getting themselves elected to parliament? Fancy that!

Which is the credible letter and which one is the letter signed by people not privvy to the data and not qualified to comment?

BBC reports that letter signed by 200 'behavioural scientists'. Not a single virologist /epidemiologist /immunologist/ global health expert that I recognise and whose opinion I'd want to hear. A credible scientific debate needs voices of experts on both sides. Stop the madness! Yes, I repeat I know lots who are experts in modelling in the context of infectious diseases. Not one is on this letter. Mathematical epidemiology is a big field. The people who are experts and publishing in this field and contributed to previous epidemics need to be heard. Please, see below for the list of scientists who have signed the open letter to urge the UK gov to implement stricter measures. I do not recognised anybody and I have been a virologist for 15 years. https://t.co/20WkSlTl8v

So 200 experts in serious epidemics signed a letter opposing the government policy? Do you have a link to that because that sounds remarkable if true.

I think the suggestion is it is far from over for countries that have seemingly recovered like China. With low immunity, its likely to have another wave I assume.

Professional experts in what?

You've got absolutely no idea. This isn't Johnson's plan, he's following the scientific advice of people miles smarter than me or you. It could be wrong but to suggest that somehow it's some sort of vanity thing or that he isn't doing anything is pig ignorant and pathetic because you hate the tories.

They really are the worst type of people.

A bit stupid? It's retarded. Almost as idiotic as the far left twitter replies to the news that nadone dories has the virus.

No investment, poor form for the vast majority of the last two seasons, probably have to sell more players, no decent rb, hojbjerg most likely leaving, Bertrand most likely leaving. I'd be pretty surprised if we weren't one of the favourites for the drop next year and it really wouldn't be a surprise.

This isn't fantasy football. A team like West ham would never buy redmond for 60 million plus. Ever.

Yes that seems more reasonable.

Who said I didn't rate him? He just very obviously isn't worth 60 million plus. No one would pay that, you're insane.

The ghost of Paul Allen.

Lol. No chance is redmond 60 million. Laughable.

Looks like climate change could have a benefit after all.

Good one pal! Roflmao.