I didn’t understand why the UK was not introducing measures now. I know the CMO+CMS said they want to delay and reduce the peak, but so does everyone!

So that doesn’t explain why they are pursuing a different policy to countries that are already controlling the virus well. 1/ Then there's articles like this one suggest that the earlier we introduce controls / change behaviour, the better off we'll be in the long run: medium.com/@tomaspueyo/co…

So I lay in bed last night thinking about exponential curves and I realized what I was missing. 2/