Quote Originally Posted by TWGL1 View Post
The government had access to the data from the Diamond Princess, the US aircraft carrier, and the Italian village of Po, long before it became an issue here.

Whitty knew that it was an irrelevance, it didn't affect large number of people, and of those it did affect, few if any were seriously harmed, unless you had 4 or more co-morbidities.
You make it sound like it was part of a bigger plan!