On 17/03/2020 11:07, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
The bad news: the UK's present policy is still to delay the epidemic rather than try to stop it, allowing over 60% of the population to catch the disease at a projected cost of 400,000 UK deaths (UK Government figures).
Coronavirus: UK changes course amid death toll fears https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51915302 "Change course or a quarter of a million people will die in a "catastrophic epidemic" of coronavirus - warnings do not come much starker than that." So maybe we will have a chance. Maybe. I still do not trust the Government to do the right thing, and advisors who have been forced to change their policy often do not implement the new policy whole-heartedly. As to what the US state and federal Governments will do, who knows? I hear some states are doing OK, but the federal government seems paralysed. Unquarantined interstate travel should stop, today. Pretty sure the National Guard could enforce that. Peter Fairbrother