Well, yes, that too.
I was looking at a few other nations yesterday as it happens.
In September, Merkel essentially said "we need to get to grips with this or we could have 19,200 infections a day by Christmas". They've been posting infection numbers well in excess of 30,000/day well before...
That might not be targeted at me, but I'm going to take it on anyway, as you HAVE replied to be with that on several occasions on this topic.
No one, or certainly not me, would claim that Johnson and the government have been "damned if they do, and damned if they don't" on every single aspect...
They were simply stating the estimate from NERVTAG >>> https://khub.net/documents/135939561/338928724/SARS-CoV-2+variant+under+investigation%2C+meeting+minutes.pdf/962e866b-161f-2fd5-1030-32b6ab467896?t=1608470511452
Not entirely sure what people expect them to do.
It’s worth adding that...