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My take on the Johnson govt's response is a similar one to Trump's actions and that is that the state of the economy comes first and "we will recover come what may" and that incl the extreme outcome of this folly! The FM and Jeanne Freeman are definitely working alongside their own medical experts incl the CMO and the ones
who have prepared for and studied the possibility of a pandemic for years. The timing and advice is slightly different but in the knowledge of the extreme events that were happening abroad and particularly in Italy. IT IS NOT A PRACTISED SCIENCE and I myself found it disappointing that some infected Scot citizens were coming in from Italy as air flights were gonna bring it in as we all know. Eg I thought the Scot rugby match v Italy in Rome should've been cancelled - one fan only infected but that was one too many IMO! Ultimately, the eventual full impact of this threat will define how well their strategy of preparation and mitigation has worked. Note we were never gonna fully block this virus from entering the country in a human host but I still remain optimistic that our small demographic, plus the containment and eventual mitigation measures, will prove to be factors in overcoming this threat.However, as said previously, this is not a practised science although some lessons were learnt from the previous SARS virus which had the hallmarks of a pandemic 17 years ago but only infected 8000 people worldwide with a 10% death rate and eventually "petered out".