Ministers were clearly panicked by a report from Imperial College London under Prof Neil Ferguson, the most alarming document I have read outside the realm of nuclear war planning...
The maverick but frequently accurate pandemic forecaster at Stanford University John Ioannidis called the data collected so far on the pandemic utterly unreliable ...
Yet more scepticism was expressed by a former NHS pathologist, John Lee
It will be interesting to compare the results of countries that have shut down with those that just practiced sensible controls. Will there be a significant difference in the death rate? This of course is something we wont know until this is all over.
Personally, to be truly realistic, I think all the deaths resulting from the economic collapse to be caused by the shutdowns should be attributed to COVID...