KrunchyKarrot
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Professor said:KrunchyKarrot said:Well I accept that SAGE might not have had blanket representation ,but i cant believe that there was a shortage of expertise and that the specialists you mention would have shut us down weeks earlier. I believe mistakes have been made, and it will need a thorough investigation to sort it out.
On another note Prof we need to get everything up and running in NHS Wales, colleagues tell me that its at a virtual standstill. Nurses have been sitting around on wards for months with no patients which i can understand but we have to get specialist treatments up and running to avert another disaster.
Surely its not beyond us to isolate wards to allow us to treat patients.
The latter parts I fully agree with. The issue was that everything was treated like influenza. Anyone with real experience in MERS or SARS would have driven for an earlier, strict and in the end much shorter lockdown. Added to having a clown in charge we ended with disaster despite prior warning
I dont think any PM would have acted against the specialist advice, Corbyn or Starmer come to think of it I wouldn't have the gonads to ignore SAGE. There is a train of thought stating that we might have got it right, and that countries who went early might be going in and out of lockdown. The thing is nobody is sure so unless we get a vaccine soon we will and are all held to ransom.