This from Imperial College’s Covid19 Response Team, which informed today’s decisions by @BorisJohnson’s government, says UK was on course for intensive care demand to be eight times bed capacity and 250,000 deaths. So it became essential for there to be today’s... 
draconian “suppression” strategy. But as you can see @neil_ferguson and his colleagues say “it is not at all certain suppression will succeed in long term” and that “no public health intervention with such disruptive effects on society has been previously attempted for such...
a long duration”.
