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I get the impression your thinking is often bare.

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Follow the science but hide the bits you don't like https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/revealed-uk-scientists-fury-over-attempt-to-censor-covid-19-advice According to the scientists “We weren’t given advance notice and we still haven’t been given a satisfactory explanation,” the...

Of course it's a political matter. Follow the science is just another 3-word slogan.

I don't necessarily disagree, bit what's that based on? I've read numerous stories of lockdown violations in the UK.

Sánchez in Spain and Macron in France both held their hands up in recent weeks and admitted that mistakes had been made. All we get from Bojo and co is slogans and spin.

Did you take the trouble to look at any of the articles? Any sponsored content is clearly labelled. The Guardian run plenty of articles critical of Gates, several of which are on the first page of the link you shared. In no way comparable to the editorial influence wielded by the owners of...

The Guardian should be your go-to paper then (apologies if that's what you were suggesting).

Hugo, I agree with a lot of what you say but I do wish you'd say populist rather than popularist.

https://healthmedia.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/19/response-to-sunday-times-insight-article/ The government response to the Times article. Were such rebuttals offered pre-corona? A similar thing was done after the FT ventilator exposé.

That could open a rather expensive can of worms, don't you think? open goal

Ok, mate, I must have misinterpreted your original post.

Yes, both countries used tech. Of course they did. But China's lockdown was more severe. As your article points out, testing was key in South Korea.

Your original post equated the Chinese and South Korean approaches. The article you've shared doesn't back that up.

Testing. They identified and isolated from the off, quickly developing the capacity to do thousands of tests a day.

It seems like you have no idea what happened in South Korea.

Nobody's expecting perfection. But following best practice would be nice.

Hey, man. Let's get behind the government! We can ask questions later after we leave them to **** it up a bit more.

What makes you think they are doing superbly compared to Germany, for example?

Do they believe it themselves?