Coronavirus: Some scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives'

The signatories also criticised comments made by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, about managing the spread of the infection to make the population immune.

The Department of Health said Sir Patrick’s comments had been misinterpreted.

Their letter was published on the day it was announced 10 more people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 21.

英国都这么紧张了吗，最近又有10人死亡，一共死了21个。大陆这边不知道什么情况，说是零增长，但是我听消息，我家附近就可能有人感染。

英国都这么乱了，大陆怎么可能没事情，天天零增长。

“It is almost impossible to predict what that will mean in terms of human costs, but we are conservatively looking at tens of thousands of deaths, and possibly at hundreds of thousands of deaths,” he said.

My heart is with British people. I really hope that this will not last long.

@牛牛A #4 You should be more concerned about the Chinese.

@牛牛A #4 the Chinese people

应该是吓唬本国老百姓的一种手段

@sorrysorrysorry #7 这种解读也有，但是不符合执政党的利益。虽然英国政府的这番表态确实把英国人吓得半死，客观上降低了 $R_0$，但是执政党基本完蛋。

@小二 #8 鲍里斯约翰逊这个脑瓜不是一般人。。

@sorrysorrysorry #9 真·为人民服务

有人说，要是约翰逊直接宣布禁止大规模活动啥的，英国人直接反了，天天游行，索性直接说大家伙儿自求多福，大家反而老实了……

@小二 #10 这么好的策略习总应该学习一下，降低维稳成本杠杠的。

@小二 #10 你这思路真是。。。为了赞美这么添没必要吧。

@小二 #10 逆向操作，属你最牛

@sorrysorrysorry #7 对症下药嘛

@红河谷女儿 #13 @牛牛A #12 我只是说有人这么认为，我并不认同这种判断。

@红河谷女儿 #14 看起来没啥作用，不看好腐国

话说米国现在很乱，忘在哪看的米国街面犯罪猛升。 熔断三次 有什么特殊的意义么

已经悬崖勒马了，发布最严控制令了。不知道拯救了多少人的命。 真是群体免疫，击穿医疗后，10%的致死率运尸车都不够用。

Theresa May: My right honourable friend is rightly engrossed in the day to day in dealing with the results of Covid-19. But I’d like to ask him to cast his mind a little further forward. The chief scientific adviser and the chief medical officer have been clear that the best solution for this is a vaccine but the chief scientific adviser has said that could be as much as a year away. I believe he’s also suggested that until that vaccine is available it may be difficult to ease restrictions successfully. Does my right honourable friend agree with that analysis?

Boris Johnson: The objective of the government and our scientific advisers is to press the peak of the epidemic to make sure we get through so that we come out on the other side and that we do that as fast as possible. That’s why we’re taking all the measures that we’re announcing, that’s why we’ve announced the package of business support that we have. I’m not going to give a timescale on it but that is the strategy and I’m absolutely certain that it will succeed.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/pmqs