I agree - but - in the case of the UK government, they quickly went both mad and fairly useless. Briefly, the government can be blamed for: - The deliberate scaremongering/police overreach etc. - Not… (View Post)

That's not my recollection. Boris was resisting locking down until the government modellers told him otherwise; then he changed his tune immediately. And to be fair, we knew very little back the… (View Post)

Well, it is, because - to my frustration - lockdown was pretty popular. Hence SKS calling for longer, harsher lockdowns in pretty much all scenarios. Hence the NEU resisting the reopening of schools.… (View Post)

And would not have unlocked in August 2021. (View Post)

In theory, yes. In practice, covid cases stopped exponentiating well before legal measures were brought in. Presumably because of either natural behaviour change or running out of people to infect. A… (View Post)