Anyone who asks "Why have so many died in Britain so far?" not "Why so few?" merely demonstrates that they haven't been following events properly since early February.
The qstn to ask policymakers is not "Why hv so many died?" It is: "Do you have a way to get us through, from here, that does not involve hundreds of thousands more dying?" To be honest, I'm not at all sure they do, and it's time they 'fessed up.
Watch this interview again, & remember: we didn't go with what the professor of epidemiology said was the only way forward. We didn't side with the expert. We sided with the blogger. But does that mean the professor was somehow wrong on the scientific pt? https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1238573667002523648?s=19
Remember this? Has something changed that makes this incorrect? If so, what?
None of this is to criticise the lockdown. But the lockdown doesn't solve anything. It merely buys time for us to do something. What? What has it bought us time to do?