More anti government drivel. Funny how easy it is to be wise after the event.

The government were led by science and therefore were taking the steps they thought appropriate.

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

Yet oddly enough Keir Starmer broadly agrees with the evil Tories' actions

Obviously it's inconceivable that both the Government and opposition are correct and it's you that's in the wrong

Pathetic tit for tat was you saying the government should be done for criminal negligence. Ha ha ha. Which countries have done better because this isnt over for anyone yet. Making assumptions of that nature will come back to bite you. Remember your post! So what you are saying is some scientists were correct and some were wrong. Also remember this when you are banging on the eco threads.

When people say 'science' often they mean 'material evidence' and they are not exactly the same thing - science may involve many different interpretations although the consensus around global warming is somewhat unanimous now, and the scientists this govt are using are anonymous, and offering different advice than other countries' scientists. From my understanding, limited obviously, it's that underpinning a lot of fields of science are not base facts or knowledge but an underlying mystery, with immunology for example the mystery is when the immune system recognises a particle as being 'self or not self' - all the data gathered establishes when that point is in a particular circumstance, but 'self or not self' is the underlying unknown or mystery that needs to be solved, so it's not so simple as saying they 'followed' the science - that's a clever cop out based on most people being blinded by science, although there will be a point when the a particular reaction to a particular antigen becomes established, but many theories and opinions will compete until that point is reached. There will be different schools of thought in epidemiology and virology based on how viruses at act different scales, individually or in groups, or whether virions' activity is triggered by genetics or other aspectas of physical structure or dynamics. And it's a new virus so there won't be one scientific view, there never is, only a consensus, some of which will become out-dated.

the feeling's mutual