As far as I can tell the data doesn't seem to show that's what's happening. A couple of summaries: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/truth-behind-filter-bubbles-bursting-some-myt… (View Post)

Typical brexiter arrogance thinking people will want to come to their country just to be eaten by nut-testing squirrels or turned into enormous blueberry pies. (View Post)

As far as I can make out the preparedness seems to be the problem. They'd had a plan to deal with the next epidemic ever since the Spanish Flu, and they'd worked very hard on it and it was a jolly go… (View Post)

You can make arguments about balance for the later parts but the first few weeks were pure incompetence with no redeeming features, because the failure to do cheap things early meant you had to do ex… (View Post)

I haven't read the report yet but the baffling thing watching this from Japan at the time was that the British government spent weeks refusing to do the simple things that Japan had already used to c… (View Post)