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Why we are where we are.

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@JuliaHB1

Oooops.

@JuliaHB1

Hi, me again.

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Almost forgot.

@JuliaHB1

How it started. How it's going.

Still going.

Meanwhile.

Friday.

Saturday

Mid November.

Turns out the number of deaths is almost three times the number that Whitty and Vallance had predicted in their 'example scenario'.

Why we are where we are.

"You’re unlikely to be killed by the coronavirus. Yes, the disease is unpleasant; and, yes, in some circumstances, it can cause complications that lead to fatalities."

@DanielJHannan https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2020/02/daniel-hannan-alarmism-doom-mongering-panic-and-the-coronavirus-we-are-nowhere-near-a-1919-style-catastrophe.html

Daniel Hannan: Alarmism, doom-mongering, panic – and the coronavirus. We are nowhere near a...

Nothing I have written should be taken as a suggestion that we drop our guard or stop taking precautions. But, assuming we do that, there is no reason to panic. Cheer up.

https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2020/02/daniel-hannan-alarmism-doom-mongering-panic-and-the-coronavirus-we-are-nowhere-near-a-1919-style-catastrophe.html

Why we are where we are.

"I'm going to go out on a limb and predict there will be no 'second spike' - not now, and not in autumn either. The virus has melted into thin air."

@toadmeister https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/25/day-day-coronavirus-edges-ever-closer-extinction-time-get-back/

Day by day, the coronavirus edges ever closer to extinction. Time to get back to normal

It’s becoming clear that the social distancing rules – even if the new one-metre rule – are unnecessary.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/25/day-day-coronavirus-edges-ever-closer-extinction-time-get-back/

Why we are where we are.

"Corona deaths are down to a handful a day out of a population of 66 million. Basically, I have more chance of marrying Brad Pitt than you have of dying from Covid19."

@allisonpearson https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/britains-grip-coronafear-and-dangerous-virus/

Well done, Matt 'we’re doomed!' Hancock – Covid fear is now a bigger threat than the virus itself

Once upon a time we were Blighty not Frighty. It's time to get a grip or there will be irreversible damage to our national health

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/britains-grip-coronafear-and-dangerous-virus/

How it started. How it's going.