If 65k deaths is ‘working’ what would ‘not working’ look like?
A better description is: 'our plan A, to basically let the virus do its job, folded when we realized that would be 100's of 1000s of dead bodies. Unfortunately we could not really get ourselves going on plan B for a couple of weeks.'
'That meant probaby a few 10s of 1000s more dying than needed to. It's also meant we had to switch to plan C too early, because the other lot in our party who never bought into plan B just won't stick the course.'
'The other bit of plan B was to get testing and tracing, but unfortunately that has not worked so well. But we might get there in the end. What's the worst that can happen, eh?'
And, if 65k dead so far is 'working', how will we know if the plan from here on 'works'? Another 20k? What does success look like?
