Re: Strains, Strains, Strains, Strains.
The main point of ineptitude was that they saw what was happening in Italy, then did nothing for at least two weeks. That two weeks allowed the virus to seed round the country. If they had acted at the beginning there were a few hundred known cases and probably several thousand unknown. Exactly the same situation Australia found itself in. We had a large number of cases at the beginning caused by a cockup that allowed passengers off a cruise liner in Sydney that then travelled to every state and territory, spreading the virus. That is the time to lockdown and stop non citizens coming in. You can then deal with the cases you have without new cases arriving.
You can close borders to most travelers while still allowing freight. We still import stuff and states closed borders to each other, yet freight still flowed between them. If you have the political will you find a solution. Returning citizens need to go into supervised quarantine. We tried home isolation, but too many people didn't obey the rules.
Close borders as much as possible, short hard lockdown to treat known cases then you can open the country back up. Any new outbreaks are small and should be controllable with local measures.
The simple fact is that the UK and most European countries didn't take it seriously until it was too late. They didn't take the hard measures that were required and allowed massive seeding of the virus to spread round their populations.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
