Quote Originally Posted by Elwood Blues View Post
So the scientist are just puppets dancing on a string are they.

Hoe do you know that the policy was not being fitted to the science????
Not puppets dancing but they certainly haven't had all powers of decision making devolved to them, this was always a balancing act between the economic effect (shorter term and longer term) and lives lost given our level of preparedness. The cso or cmo doesn't make those decisions, they are employed by the people who do.

That is my way of explaining why we were out of step with the who and the majority of the world for so long. The only other explanation is that we aren't as good at this stuff as we think.