The extraordinary reluctance to recommend mask wearing was part of the SAGE mindset that somehow British people would refuse to adopt the behavioural norms of much of Asia. It was also manifested in its and the PM’s resistance to locking down and restricting civil...
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liberties. Its behavioural scientists were convinced Britons - unlike the Chinese or the Koreans - would not stomach it. They also thought suppression would just delay an inevitable viral surge, that there was no way of purging the virus till vaccines arrived...
through lockdown, testing and quarantines. As I have mentioned, the minutes of a SAGE meeting on 13 March, say: ‘SAGE was unanimous that measures seeking to completely suppress spread of Covid-19 will cause a second peak. SAGE advises...
that it is a near certainty that countries such as China, where heavy suppression is under way, will experience a second peak once measures are relaxed.’ SAGE was wrong. But it is perhaps not surprising that the PM and the health secretary moved so late - most would say...
too late - to lock down.
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