You answered your own question, the acting Chief Medical Officer was standing next to the PM the whole time. They can only follow advice from the experts!
I saw the interview. I know who the Chief Medical Officer is (and the deputy).
I think you are confused about my question. I certainly didn't answer it myself.
I was just pointing out that what I have said so far, about current advice, is the same as what the government has said. Yet you dismissed what I said and accepted what the government said. When we said the same thing. I was just pointing that out.
If you wish to dismiss my predictions about the future, as Spring09 has in their fear, you are welcome to. But the government (wisely, really, as it is so fluid) hasn't made any predictions about the future, so we aren't disagreeing over that.
The two things I disagree with that our PM said were not endorsed by the Chief Medical Officer.
He said closing schools would increase infections, which is untrue. It is the argument used in the UK as well, but it is not based on either models or evidence from other countries. But you don't have to take the "advice" of the government over me on this, as it is not advice. The PM will just look stupid in a week or two when he does close schools, but he is probably used to looking stupid by now.
And he said schools should start 1.5 m social distancing, and that they would figure out how to do that. Which is just a ridiculous thing to say that won't be done, can't be done, and means nothing. But again, unless you are a school Principal, that is not advice you need worry about "disagreeing" with me over (and if you are, can you tell me how you are going to do it?).
