@stuartjdneil Thank you for this thread.
I love that you write a thread that is pretty hard to understand and finish it with a question like that. ๐
What I take from this is mostly that it's not simple, it's not obvious, and if you think it is you don't know enough.
@skepticalzebra Delay by two weeks is mission creep.
Still having restrictions now is mission creep.
Lockdown is the creepiest mission and it won't stop creeping until we make it.
@kesterjleek @james_e_baldwin @PerthshireMags Oh god, not exponential growth again.
59 billion people must have been infected by this stage.
Predictions of how viruses spread are hard and complicated, which is why nearly all of them are wrong.
Locking down is an experimental measure with poor data on effectiveness.