Stirling - I do not always agree with you but your post above is excellent in my opinion.
It is a shame that sometimes our leaders - they are all pretty useless to be honest nowadays - pay homage to the media and the like.
Your two paragraphs below ring very true.

Essentially fear not logic has dictated the national course. For me, wherever emotion and not reason decides the route the destination is unlikely to be fruitful.
Politicians all over the west were faced with a biological threat that they had no idea of how to respond to.....Hence they stuck rigidly to whatever the consensus was of their chosen medical leaders. The politicians were too scared to be held to account so they off loaded that responsibility and hid behind 'experts'.

I can understand the why because - if Boris had done what he wanted to do originally - then the hysteria would have been mindblowing - but it is a shame that they didn't take a deep breath and go down that different route.
As long as they don't extend the furlough now and get people back to work and kids stay in school then some social inconvenience is acceptable to me and in the end we will not have done too badly as a nation I think - at least I hope that is the outcome.

Edited by The Dolphin (11 Sep 2020 6.55am)

I tip my hat Rudi.

Excellent point after excellent point.

I wonder at what point the narrative in the media will change.....I have little doubt that once the tax rises and job losses increase more will break cover...while still finding a way to defend their own part in it.

Whatever sells the most copy and gains the most clicks.

Edited by Stirlingsays (11 Sep 2020 7.32am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Definitely a case of &rse covering has gone on.

Follow the scientists (which ones?) the opposition did the same!

Follow the crowd of govts. It’s safer politically, even if it’s wrong!

Someone I follow on Twitter who’s a former head of Pfizer in respiratory research has just spoken on Talkradio. If he was allowed to speak on MSM he could get through to people and the government. He actually thinks the government are wedded to Professor (erm, yeah) Neil Ferguson’s 500,000 model (geared from 1% mortality rate) that they won’t let go of it. And SARS-1 and MERS that were similar novel viruses didn’t have a 2nd wave and neither will SARS-COVID-2.

I’ll keep an eye out for the interview and post it here. It’s unfortunately with Julia Hartley-Brewer who can’t stop herself from interrupting and waffling nothings.

COYP

The Telegraph:

"Boris Johnson’s coronavirus marshals have been dismissed as “Covid Wombles” by the police after it emerged they will have no powers to enforce new restrictions"

Even the Police are now ridiculing the Govt plans. Extraordinary.

COYP

The first crack in the dam?

Scottish Health Minister admits that the virus tests are “rubbish”

[Link]

Astonishing admission though not really surprising..

Interesting looking at the ages of people who’ve died without any pre-existing conditions

Age. Deaths
0. - 19. 4
20. - 39. 34
40. - 59. 267

Of course every one is an individual tragedy but surely protecting the most vulnerable would have been preferable, particularly since these totals include those unfortunate people who’ve died at any stage of any cause.