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They ignored it? News to me.

Oh okay that's fair enough

I don't understand. 19,000/day is more than 10,000/day. What are you complaining about?

Didn't we track and trace until it got to a point where that wasn't effective anymore? Good job getting brexit into your post... sigh

Half this thread is garbage. Conspiracy theories and political point scoring etc from people with too much time during lockdown. The other half is interesting info which makes me keep reading :annoyed:

Very much appreciate this context, thank you.

Well that is terrifying.

I'd like to think they would both do roughly the same, listen to experts and try their best.

One thing is clear, there has to be some kind of govt intervention to protect businesses. Otherwise we'll come out in 6 months and everything will be closed down.

What makes you think we are not testing people?

Getting tiresome

That's because we don't have enough tests to test everyone with flu symptoms. (and as the other poster said, makes perfect sense to prioritise like this)

I found that really strange They said test everyone, and isolate people that test positive Isn't that what everybody is trying their best to do?!

What about this thread brings out the worst in people? Fair comment is met with this type of response.

I don't think Japan is testing many people

Sorry, why didn't the news make this clear? It was presented as "overwhelming disagreement" when this first broke...

How is that reassuring?

The "herd immunity" is a misunderstanding. At the press conference last Thurs, they said paraphrasing "this is going to spread and we can't stop that, it would not be desirable to stop it because we need long-term immunity, so our goal is to delay the spread". That has been interpreted as "we...

I don't know why broadcasters facilitate such a conversation knowing the doctor can't possibly have the correct answer. The government hasn't published any details of the plan yet...

What about "the government is going to ask manufacturers..." implies they would already know? Everybody is so anti-government in here, to the point of being obtuse