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Very good questions.

Do we have any references to the earliest credible warnings, and subsequent timeline of further credible warnings, that were given to the government and their advisers? ETA: Actually I realise the link in Jonathan's post is very pertinent:

Do we have any references to the earliest credible warnings, and subsequent timeline of further credible warnings, that were given to the government and their advisers?

My daughter had to throw away two packs of meat a little while back, well inside their use-by date and delivered online from ASDA. I think there are some significant supply chain issues at the moment, and I suspect a consequence is that perishables are not getting anything like enough time in...

And that is a very very long time to be procrastinating and dithering when a pandemic is taking hold.

Bearing in mind the y-axis is logarithmic, so the shapes of the graphs makes the numbers look much more benign than they really are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/herd-immunity-will-the-uks-coronavirus-strategy-work Dr David Halpern, a psychologist ...

When out for my lunchtime socially distanced walk, I give much more than 2 metres clearance. I especially avoid walking within what I think of as other people's "vapour trails" they may leave lingering in the air behind them. I pointed out at work, before we started working from home, that two...

Er ... thank you @Mij ... although I understand about 90% of the words, the missing 10% and the way the 90% go together ... means I don't have a clue what you are trying to explain to me :confused:. Thank you, but it's way over my head :).

Some posts moved from the Worldwide spread and control thread Could this be a virus that becomes dormant in someone, rather than eradicated, and then reactivates again?

I believe - and have done for some weeks - that this is at the heart of why so many people, governments and health scientists alike, have been (and still are) getting this so very badly wrong. Health scientists, of all people, should be able to see beyond the end of their linear noses to the...

This will be key I imagine. You cannot control something if you do not know what it is doing.

What about the possibility of the heavy hammer lockdown we are currently in, and then once it has taken effect, easing it back off gently, either progressively or in modest steps. With many processes that can run out of control, the first move is to get it back under control, and that can need...

"Every early case was followed though..." No, of course it wasn't! How could you possibly state that when not testing to detect all cases, including early cases? How can you possibly try to use that as an argument for minimal testing!

Well I suppose they could boost immunity by an infinite % if they kill their patients.

It seems like the kind of process that could - and in the current circumstances should - be done remotely. It might be that because some of the interaction will be more stilted then some more time should perhaps be allowed (but not too much!). I, like many people, am now working remotely from...

So is mine ... but not quite in the same way you mean I suspect ... ;).

Are you saying you believe that in Wuhan they have eradicated all traces of the virus, and so there is nothing that could initiate another outbreak? Or do you mean there is still a residue of the virus in Wuhan, but such that it can be controlled?

But surely even with total closure of borders, you cannot fully come out of lockdown before there is sufficient herd immunity in the population; until a vaccine is available the human costs of attaining that herd immunity would be appallingly and unacceptably high. There is a long list of...

Thank you. God that's absurd, especially if anonymised.