My mates a Doctor who works abroad now and this is what he says about Boris’ plan:

“Is that his plan? Was pretty aghast to see pictures of huge swathes of people at Cheltenham races. Is fucking stupid to be honest. It’s actually quite miraculous what the Chinese managed to achieve in limiting themselves to 80000 cases. Even more revealing is that in Hong Kong, where they effectively self police into social quarantine and have done since SARS in 2008, there’s been virtually no covid19 when you would have expected a real problem. I get the damage that’s being done to economy is a real thing too but he should be being more draconian than he is. I can tell you from experience that ICU runs pretty close to capacity under normal circumstances. Not only is there nowhere near the capacity to do that, but using what capacity there is will interfere with the hospitals ability to do anything else. What happens if you get appendicitis in the middle of all this or a heart attack? I think his team is wrong.”