John Edmunds believes loosening lockdown is ”risky” as reproduction rate is just below 1
“There are 8,000 new infections every day in England alone. That’s in the community. There are more infections that happen in hospitals and care homes which wouldn’t be included. ... Not 100% an educated guess. We’ve done some modelling we think, we hope, we might be able to hold the reproduction number at about 1. But that would still mean—a reproduction number at about 1 at this point—would mean that the incidents stay at about this level. And this level is about 8,000 infections—8,000 new infections—each day in England alone.”
Emily Maitlis was reprimanded by the BBC for giving this introduction on Dominic Cummings
At the beginning of the BBC Two programme, Maitlis said the country was "shocked" that the government could not see that Boris Johnson's aide had broken the rules by travelling from London to County Durham during the coronavirus lockdown. She said the "public mood" was "one of fury, contempt and anguish", and that Mr Cummings had made people who struggled to keep to the government's rules "feel like fools". She continued: "The prime minister knows all this. But despite the resignation of one minister, growing unease from his backbenchers, a dramatic early warning from the polls and a deep national disquiet, Boris Johnson has chosen to ignore it. "Tonight we consider what this blind loyalty tells us about the workings of Number 10."
Person outside drinking beer explains how there are too many people outside drinking beer
Seems to always be the other people who are the ones being irresponsible.
13th March 2020 — John Edmunds, UK Government advisor on Herd Immunity
“The only way to stop this epidemic is indeed to achieve herd immunity”.
19th May 2020 — John Edmunds, UK Government advisor on Herd Immunity
“I don’t know... err... I’m not quite sure whether that really was the strategy. I think... err... I think at the time it was difficult to imagine... erm... or... I mean it... we weren’t sure by... you know... err... what levels of compliance with various social distance measures were possible.”