There's a notion that №10's scientist, Whitty, was wrong, or that Johnson listened to the wrong man.
Whitty was in the position he was promoted to precisely because he soft soaps everything.
Johnson CHOSE which scientists he wished to endorse, >>

https://twitter.com/DuncanWeldon/status/1247614477249515521?s=19

and they were chosen, I would suggest, because he had other advisers with agendas other than public health, and the science supporting public health.

Baldly put: they found the scientist with the weakest voice making the weakest case for action and set him up as the final arbiter of what action was necessary. And then aggressively pursued the fastest and most brutal route through this virus ("herd immunity")

because the non scientific advisers pointed out that that was the fastest, cheapest route to getting the economy back up and running; and had the happy side effect of mostly killing off the 8m people Priti Patel had identified as "economically inactive"

(which is to say "expensive for the UK to keep alive") on 19th Feb. 20 days after the UK got its first case of #covid19. You have to wonder what exercise she was pursuing, in identifying those people,

because we know they are almost all early retirees, the sick, disabled, and carers for those people. And they were never going to be picking fruit so that isn't why they were identified, is it.

In short: I'm certain our government intended the deaths of the most vulnerable people in this country, not as an end, but as a comfortable economic side effect of blasting this virus through our population quite deliberately

via unprotected NHS staff and carers, a failure to test, and zero tracking.

And it is my fervent hope that every member of the current cabinet, and every adviser involved in these decisions goes to jail for the resulting deaths.

As a sidebar, on a personal note, I recognise that it is hard to imagine another human being deliberately killing people.

I lived in Catford during the epic battle by the residents of Lewisham to keep their A&E and maternity departments, which Johnson wanted closed to save £.

The alternative for Lewisham residents was a road journey to Greenwich hospital, which, if you happened to have a heart attack at the wrong time of day, can take an hour. He maintained that the closure of Lewisham A&E would save lives.

There was a meeting at Catford town hall and Johnson was given South London's finest reception: I don't think many politicians have seen an angrier crowd (though not at all violent), since the miners' strike. Everyone knew what he was doing would kill their loved ones.

Words were not minced. It put the willies up him. He subsequently bought a water cannon that can smash a man's eyes out of his skull.

Make no mistake about Johnson. He is perfectly prepared to do violence to the citizens of this country, and he is perfectly prepared to make decisions that kill the most vulnerable IF he is allowed to get away with it.

The citizens of Lewisham did not permit him to get away with it. I think the citizens of Great Britain ought to take that lesson to heart.

They govern us by consent.