Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
It's not just demographic, of course, it's political. Our politics and media at the moment are so polarised that the government will get - attacked whatever it does. And while it's possible to reason and be rational when - as in Sweden's case - you're talking about a few hundred or thousand dead more or less, it's impossible to do that when the numbers are in the tens of thousands. Put simply, no UK government could have made that call and stayed in office.
The Prime Minister here has been quite clever really. He just pops up every now and then but for the most part the whole thing is being taken care of by the Public Health Agency and they’re making all the big decisions. Half the dead have come from care homes so even though that’s more a failure of government the Public Health Agency have been getting all the grief.