What do I think?
I think that the Coronavirus could have been stopped dead at UK ports, the Chunnel and the airports, if everyone and everything entering the country had been quarantined for 3 weeks, starting on the 1st January.
Trouble is, no one would have stood for it, would they?
At that point it was thought to be a scaremongering drama that would never impact ol’ Blighty.
There would have been hysterically indignant outcry from huge sections of the population - and probably from this very journalist professor.
The reality is that even now, with thousands of people being admitted to hospital every day, and over 500 people dying every day, we STILL have people ignoring social distancing, saying ‘its only flu’ and merrily passing it around in secret pub lock ins, or beach walks with friends.
If the UK government had introduced draconian Lockdown measures any earlier, then the groundswell of resistance would have made the Lockdown ineffective. It took the UK pop starting to worry and stress about what was happening in Spain and Italy for the measures to be taken seriously. Tragic, but true (IMO).