[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Omg it's Mokka.



To be fair though Mokka, the "herd immunity plan" was never really a thing in action and we've been on "social restrictions" for over a month and a fairly standard lockdown (not any less strict than most countries) since schools closed 2.5 weeks ago. The response wasn't as snappy as it could have been, but it hasn't been overly light IMO.

There is of course the issue of parliament not really sticking to their own rules; clambering all over each other, leaning over shoulders, whispering in each others ears... Whilst informing everyone else to keep a 2 meter distance. It's a bit confusing why they thought it didn't apply to them. But a lot of them have caught it so it clearly went round parliament.

Not entirely accurate, we had folks up at the podium talking about it, he was talking about it, we found out what his advisors had been saying about protecting the economy rather than the people.

The WHO have said that attacking the virus and being quick and decisive are the most important things, so even pissing about with this for a week has cost lives; not only that, but this has been known about since December, so the fact we only heard about this plan in early March before it was scrapped publicly not long after (tories still deny the strategy ever existed despite video of the cabinet speaking about it), disguises the fact there is no way they weren't working to this plan since it started to spread through Europe.

We knew we were 2 weeks behind Italy, and we tried to Pontius Pilate our way through it. As Cummings is reported to have said "If we lose a few thousand old people to save the economy, then so be it".