01-15-2022, 06:02 PM
(01-14-2022, 09:59 AM)baggy1 Wrote:(01-14-2022, 08:10 AM)Kit Kat Chunky Wrote:(01-13-2022, 09:07 AM)baggy1 Wrote: The press picked up on a worse case scenario prediction and ran with it and not the full picture when they were talking about 75k, the experts put together models that show potential outcomes and based on what we knew from other variants it was one of the possibilities. They didn't run into the room shouting 'we're all dooooomed', there were other scenarios and the politicians took the choice in the round.
These numbers were also being peddled by experts and SAGE members in interviews. When pressed they admitted the modelling was based on Delta not Omicron.
Sturgeon and Drakeford are looking like fools, and BJ would have been the same if left to him.
I'd hardly say they are looking like fools, being cautious throughout this pandemic should have been the default setting and the mild restrictions that Wales and Scotland put in place only really impacted large crowds and were supported by the majority of the population. I'm going up to Edinburgh for a weekend in February and checked with our Sales rep up there before booking and he said that you wouldn't notice the difference on a day to day basis.
And Johnson not looking like a fool is a stretch in any circumstance.
Johnson isn't looking a fool over lockdown. He is looking like a complete total monumental twat over everything else, though.
The Sunday papers might be the final nail for him.