Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?

Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by egr on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:20PM (#22579540)

As far as I know, they did not communicate an overall strategy or comprehensive action plan. The basis of this thread are a series of tweets making assumptions about what the government strategy could be (given a lack of measures taken as a basis).

I do not understand how not communicating a comprehensive action plan is meant to be the harder choice ("a decision many other countries [...] not able to make") when contrasted with messures such as declaring national emergencies and widespread lockdowns of public life.

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by thu2111 on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:00AM (#22582484)

They held a press conference live streamed on YouTube where the PM and the two chief scientific advisors answered questions and explained their strategy for nearly an hour. The answer to one question alone took over ten minutes. You may not be aware of their communication about their strategy but it's on YouTube waiting for you.

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by tigershark on Sunday March 15, 2020 @08:17AM (#22583024)

That hour long press conference, that I’ve seen live, can be condensed in don’t do anything at all, let’s get 60% of the population infected so we’ll have herd immunity.

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