One of Boris Johnson's former scientific advisers says the UK's death toll would have been reduced by at least half if Boris Johnson had imposed restrictions earlier.
Rory Stewart, a former Cabinet minister, was one of the most vocal advocates for an earlier lockdown in March. He said that the government should have challenged scientific advice more rigorously.The UK's coronavirus death toll would have been reduced by at least half if Boris Johnson had imposed lockdown restrictions on the country a week earlier, according to a damning account by one of the scientists who informed the government's response at the time.
"The measures, given what we knew about the virus then, were warranted. Certainly had we introduced them earlier we'd have seen many fewer deaths." Ferguson sat on the SAGE committee, a group of scientists advising the government on Covid-19, and was a leading architect of the lockdown plan until he resigned after breaking lockdown rules to meet his lover.
Jim_Edwards The same advisor that was on the panel that told the government when to lock down
What's half of zero?
Because the advisor himself recommended delaying lockdown! This is like telling your mate to put his life savings on a horse, then, when he loses everything, saying ‘if only you hadn’t done that.’
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