Good news for a nation that loves bickering: coronavirus is the new Brexit | Joel Golby

We are in the middle of a political-biomedical crisis where everybody is a half-expert, says author Joel Golby

The start of Britain’s Coronavirus Week #2, now, with a good handful of us in self-isolation and a good amount of us very actively not: supermarkets plundered, businesses still not quite knowing whether to let people work from home, the diagnosed cases significant but currently manageable, the country on a precipice, and before all of this hits us as hard as it has other European countries, the one question burns: will the government’s gamble to not engage in mass testing or draconian lockdowns...

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