If you believe SAGE have come out of this blameless then that's your opinion. My opinion is our leading scientific community have made huge catastrophic errors throughout - be it not understanding the brutality of the virus, their projections, late lockdown, borders, etc
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We can all agree not one element of our response to this has been good. We can only hope our vaccine efforts succeed.
You haven't really addressed the points I was making, and have repeated yourself with claims that aren't backed up with evidence.
You bizarrely think people weren't looking at Wuhan, despite the many dozen research articles, official reports, official minutes that show that they were. You bizarrely think SAGE didn't think the virus was brutal despite their modelling and evidence forcing the government into the first lockdown when they warned COVID would kill hundreds of thousands of us if they didn't. Now you've said 'their projections' - can you elaborate on what projections you're even talking about please?
Oh and you've also totally made up a position that I've never once said, in your very first sentence.
By the way, when you compared UK's deaths to our neighbours, but ignored France because it didn't help your point? That's called cherry picking.
You might not think there have been any elements of the response at all that have been good, but I think those aware of the work that goes into public health wouldn't be so heartless in their assessment of how our public health workers/scientists have worked tirelessly in the last year. For our benefit, despite an often hostile public.