Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
I'm still wondering if this isn't a huge overreaction, to be honest. At the moment we seem to be proceeding on the basis that something that might kill half a million of - let's be brutal - our less productive people is worth tanking our entire economy for.
That's admirably humane of us in the short term, but I'm not convinced it's actually very sensible in a macro, long-term sense.

Unless, of course, it's potentially worse than they're letting on.
Regarding your final point, if it were the case that it's potentially worse than they're letting on, are there not likely to be too many agencies working on this who are external to government to avoid any doomsday info leaking out?