> Neil Ferguson was put in the spotlight as the "source of truth" by the UK media - I get that its more nuanced and I hope the UK government wouldn't have based

> Neil Ferguson was put in the spotlight as the "source of truth" by the UK media - I get that its more nuanced and I hope the UK government wouldn't have based its decisions to lockdown on this, and they instead took a wide range of data points - but the media pounced on Neils model being the thing that scared Johnson shitless into rolling back the idea of herd immunity. Yeah, I read different stories in different newspapers. Such as the rest of the EU, er, politely insisting that the UK was doing something really stupid and needed to change course immediately, not giving Johnson much of a choice. I strongly doubt that the entire EU had based their models on those of a single UK research team.