The government's strategy has differed from that of other countries, the WHO and independent experts so it's valid to question what we're been told imho.
e.g.
WHO appears to criticise UK approach
Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization, appeared to criticise the UK stance on "herd immunity" this morning.
Asked about the suggestion that if enough people in the UK get the virus the country could develop herd immunity, Dr Harris said:
"We don't know enough about the science of this virus. It hasn't been in our population for long enough for us to know what it does in immunological terms.
"Every virus actually functions differently in your body and stimulates a different immunological profile.
"So we can talk theories but at the moment we're really facing a situation where we have got to look at action.
She also reiterated comments made by the WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus yesterday, that Europe is now at the heart of this pandemic:
"We're seeing far too many health workers at the moment being infected and far too many young health workers dying.
"The epicentre as you know has really shifted to Europe so European governments must now be considering how they can ensure that every hospital, every health service has got the capacity, can look after the expected increase in numbers of people."
Dr Harris also said that the WHO did not advise travel restrictions and that widespread testing was the "gold standard".
We don't, and never will know if an asteroid is on an imminent collision course with the Earth, but until we have reason to believe there is, it's not worth worrying about, otherwise we'd just worry about everything that's not going to happen. In legal terms it's burden of proof, what you should assume when you don't know the answer.
