Sorry, my point is this is a government packed full of liars. Maybe Dom was there, maybe he wasn't. If he was there then maybe he argued for a lockdown he didn't believe in himself and maybe he didn't. I wouldn't trust them if they told me today was Wednesday and that's the problem when you spin...
"according to people familiar with the matter"
If you believe a word these people say you're a fool. And you're not stupid. Don't you work with medical data? What would you have recommended?
Agree with others, this is a good, honest post.
It's where I was early on too. My early thoughts were based on data from China on death rates that now looks quite wrong and a misunderstanding of how many people would need to be infected for herd immunity to take hold. Once this dawned (again...