Coronavirus lockdown changes will be 'modest' and 'small', says Dominic Raab
Boris Johnson will address the nation on Sunday evening, with the PM set to detail how some of the measures will be eased.
Oops - too little relaxation at this point and it won't be so easy to pile it all on to Prof Ferguson when hindsight becomes the big issue. He's cleared off and left a rather stinky cloud of doubt behind. A bigger cloud than before that is.
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They couldn't really start the return to 'normal' this weekend, because VE Day celebrations would just get out of hand!
I'll put my flag out, and open a can of Stella to celebrate instead!
A very complex game of blame. The government can't put too much blame on Ferguson, as that raises the question of why they trusted him in the first place. The internet is suddenly full of experts saying his code was buggy. That's likely to be true because there are many experts in this, and it's not too difficult to publicly point out the errors. So did he get set up by the government as an easy way out? Did he set himself up?
Scrobs - and they probably wanted to stir up lots of wartime spirit to offset a dreary message about the continuation of lockdown.
Sam - it certainly is a complex blame game. I assume they think infection rates may rise too much if lockdown is eased early and Ferguson may then be seen as right in spite of the rubbish model.
It begs the question as to why he was ever asked in the first place, to be wrong once ? but every time and this as well.......
A bigger issue than Professor Ferguson's private life is the accuracy of his model. When applied to the Swedish policy it forecast 40,000 deaths by now, over 15 times the reality.
that is from David Davis MP, not the only one to ask why.
Wiggia - it should be a scandal and heads should roll but I'm not holding my breath.
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