Yes Vallance said that

But sage members were also advising at the beginning of March

The government only decided on lockdown because we’d let the spread get way out of control and the herd immunity strategy had just been abandoned. Our testing was also very poor so we didn’t realise it had spread so much.

Before that it was pretty much business as usual which was madness when we could see what was happening in Italy and we weren’t even screening airport arrivals.

Posted By: SCC 28, Sep 10, 18:52:36