wanderlust wrote:Blah blah blah......
"At the Sage meeting on March 12, a moment now dubbed the “Domoscene conversion”, Cummings changed his mind. In this “penny-drop moment”, he realised he had helped set a course for catastrophe. Until this point, the rise in British infections had been below the European average. Now they were above it and on course to emulate Italy, where the picture was bleak. A minister said: “Seeing what was happening in Italy was the galvanising force across government.”
By Friday, March 13, Cummings had become the most outspoken advocate of a tough crackdown. “Dominic himself had a conversion,” a senior Tory said. “He’s gone from ‘herd immunity and let the old people die’, to ‘let’s shut down the country and the economy.’”
Everyone changed their mind you nutjob not just Cummings - because originally the medical advise which was -
""Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s senior aide, became convinced that Britain would be better able to resist a lethal second wave of the disease next winter if
Whitty’s prediction that 60% to 80% of the population became infected was right and the UK developed “herd immunity”.Change to -
"The meeting that will change British society for a generation took place on the evening of Thursday,
March 12. That was when the strategic advisory group of experts (Sage in Whitehall parlance), the government’s committee of scientists and medics, gathered to
examine modelling from experts at Imperial College London and other institutions.The results were shattering. A week earlier, councils had been warned to expect about 100,000 deaths from Covid-19. Now
Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser, realised the estimates were wrong".It's quite simple, the original prediction from the medical modelling on which the government policy was wrong. Once it was fine tuned and current data used it led to the change in dealing with the virus.
You clearly see what you want to see to back up your thinking and disregard the rest of the facts which get in your way.
You can never face up to being wrong, ever, can you.