UK defends allowing major sports events just before lockdown

 

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Champions League - Round of 16 Second Leg - Liverpool v Atletico Madrid - Anfield, Liverpool, Britain - March 11, 2020 Atletico Madrid fans wearing a face mask inside the stadium before the match as the number of coronavirus cases grow around the world Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The UK government was following scientific advice by allowing major sporting events such as the Liverpool-Atletico Madrid soccer match and Cheltenham horse racing festival to go ahead days before the coronavirus lockdown, a senior minister said.

 

“At every stage in this crisis we have been guided by the scientific advice and have been making the right decisions at the right time,” finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday during the government’s daily news conference.

 

“There is often a wrong time to put certain measures in place, thinking about sustainability and everything else. At all parts of this we have been guided by that science, we have been guided by making the right decisions at the right time, and I stand by that.”

 

The government’s deputy chief scientific adviser Angela McLean said the suggestion, made by a reporter, that allowing the soccer game to go ahead in the north-west English city of Liverpool on March 11 contributed to the spread of the coronavirus was “certainly an interesting hypothesis”.

 

“It will be very interesting to see in the future when all the science is done what relationship there is between the viruses that have circulated in Liverpool and the viruses that have circulated in Spain,” she said.

 

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 Defending the indefensible.  How about Boris shaking hands with everyone? Was that according to scientific advice too? 

Odd? Now the brown smelly stuff is hitting the fan the government say they are hanging on every word from so called EXPERTS.

And flights are still coming into British airports with no health controls on arrival! Culpable irresponsibility and negligence. Although I hope the ministers involved will faces charges for manslaughter this will never happen.

6 minutes ago, George Aylesham said:

And flights are still coming into British airports with no health controls on arrival! Culpable irresponsibility and negligence. Although I hope the ministers involved will faces charges for manslaughter this will never happen.

Same thoughts. Briefing last night Hancock asked that question (he had someone else answer it).

 

Answer?

 

You cannot screen effectively at port of entry as someone could be infected but not show any symptoms???? So the solution is don't bother. His other argument was that the infections that arise from allowing flights in is minimal compared to other causes of infections spreading. MENTAL OR WHAT?

18 hours ago, pegman said:

 Defending the indefensible.  How about Boris shaking hands with everyone? Was that according to scientific advice too? 

Question is, did he learn his lesson in the hospital bed or not?