reveal that at a meeting on Friday, February 21, when restrictions were being imposed on towns in badly-affected northern Italy, a UK government advisory committee of scientists found "no objections" to keeping the risk level to the country at "moderate."
The UK has since gone into national lockdown, with several senior members of the UK government, including the prime minister himself, in quarantine after contracting COVID-19."If you remember, they were looking at that concept - I guess it's a concept if you don't mind death, a lot of death - but they were looking at that in the UK, remember," the President said at a White House press briefing.
He added: "They have a name for it, but we won't even go by the name - it would have been very catastrophic I think if that would have happened."As a result of their initial strategy, the UK only started to ramp up testing when it was too late to secure the supplies it needed. "We are now in competition with the rest of the world . . . and other people have already bought up a lot of stock."As the
BrokenBarnet Because of our newly-won sovereignty?
AdamBienkov Oh, curse those naughty scientists, telling politicians the opposite to what they wanted to hear, and insisting that they should do no testing, PPE-purchasing or preparations of any kind. hangallscientists!
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