its worth revisiting that graph. the brown line is now a good practical path with the increased ICU capacity. its also worth reflecting most cases, all those in the past week to 10 days have contracted virus a week to 10 days after the lock down.
thats fair enough, there is still the tricky question of who can look after those children. its not as if we have an auxilary child care service, vetted, checked on standby for a national emergency.
i dont think you are being disregarded at all, more entrusted in light of very difficult situation.
i take it you supported the current policy of keeping them open for children of working parents. has there been an alternative proposal for children of key workers?
you'll be pleased to know your info is behind the curve, Novacyt has signed initial contract for supplying their PCR tests, after PHE completed trials of the kits.
dont let a crisis go to waste eh? interesting the cost of private health care bed is about a third less than the NHS reference cost. how do they do that?
rest of world isnt doing much differently, they close borders except for commuting, restrict bars to 1m spacing, then alter guidance a couple of days later. fact is no one really has a clue how to cope, and quite oddly there has been next to no coordination.
read the graph. the model predicts all those countries doing something meaningful will get to do so all over again. incidently, most those meaningful things have only been for a week, sometime days.