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This is the sort of inconsistency that's going to come and bite the UK Government

Wednesday: sure, a couple of thousand football fans from Madrid are welcome at a Champions League game in Liverpool

Friday: don't go to Madrid

#Coronavirus

theguardian.com/world/live/202…
And to those people going to me "well, things change" - yes, they do. And that therefore *also* needs a consistent response, and explanations of why changes are made. FWIW warning against travel to Madrid is the sensible call IMHO, while the game going ahead Wednesday wasn't.
Also we *knew* before the fans came to Madrid that Arsenal players had potentially got the virus a week before when playing Olympiacos. It wasn't as if the danger was not known before Wednesday.
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Right. I have been trying to get my head around the UK Government's #CoronaVirus approach for the past few hours.

Here follows a thread that's a summary of my thinking. Open workings if you like.
🚨 I am *not* a medical professional, so treat all of this with extreme care 🚨

I do however have some core questions about the UK Government's approach, and whether it actually fails on its own terms, and that's what I'll examine.
Before going any further, read this thread which is the best summary of the UK Government's approach I have found, and explains the overall aims:
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The UK is increasingly an outlier in Western Europe in its #Coronavirus measures - countries from Norway to France have today announced measures going a *lot* further.
The UK is also an outlier in Western Europe in another way - the low number of its intensive care beds per head of population.
What the UK is trying to do - slow the spread - is what every other Western European country is also trying to do. But they’re being tougher in means to control, and have more resources to do it.
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