Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?

Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by simonh on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:04PM (#22579445)

Those are good points. Because Italy was hit hardest first they had very little time to prepare. The UK has had about an extra month, which puts us in a different strategic position, so we might be able to afford an approach not viable for Italy.

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by golem14 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:44PM (#22580433)

How does the UK have an extra month, exactly ?

It did not take Italy 1 month to to go from 1,143 (today's UK number) positives to 21,157 (today's Italy number, per https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...), did it ?

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by andy_ppp on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:23AM (#22582154)

Testing in Italy was far less, the totals for there need to be inferred from the deaths and cases and the amount of testing!

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by tigershark on Sunday March 15, 2020 @08:10AM (#22582996)

Italy had 21 deaths on the 28th feb, so 2 weeks ago.

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by andy_ppp on Sunday March 15, 2020 @09:22AM (#22583335)

But the response will be less pronounced here with knowledge, self isolation and a lack of kissing when greeting. A month is probably a better guess than 2 weeks, but not a single person knows is rather the point...

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by qbaqbaqba on Sunday March 15, 2020 @03:15AM (#22581921)

It takes a long time to acquire respirators and to train anesthesiologists.

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