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Government advisers Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty said that unless the British public take the Covid-19 pandemic more seriously, cases could reach 50,000 per day in October.

@count_lippe wrote: “Most of whom will recover fully in a week.”

@stephen920 said: “The virus exists, I don’t dispute that, however I don’t think its anywhere near as deadly as spouted.”

@personanother1 said: “Two possibilities IMO... it’s a lot more dangerous than is being let on, with longterm health issues. Or the governments of the west are deliberately collapsing the economy. Maybe both.”

@Mrsteventhomas added: “If this is a precursor to another shutdown it’s not the answer. The solution has always been testing

– too little progress has been made due to conflict of opinion and a real lack of agility in identifying and rolling out best test selection. It’s abject dereliction.”

@Tennysonviterbi replied: “Testing won’t solve the problem while there are morons crowding together to bang on about their ‘right’ to not wear a mask. A test isn’t a cure, and they’re both the most likely to pass it around and the least likely to get tested.”

@creativekieran wrote: “So, this time around, no mention of a lockdown. Just carry on as normal & bring out the dead. Can’t understand their logic. Pubs & restaurants still full but we have to wear masks in a corner shop. Economy comes before human life I see.”

@kevmccash said: “What a load of [rubbish]. Can anyone remember a single prediction on this that has come true so far? Yet these people are all still employed somehow...”

@frank6611 wrote: “The number of cases means [nothing] – but the panic in Westminster (and Edinburgh) means this country as a whole will continue to get it wrong, wronger, and wrongest.”

@james995 tweeted: “As Roosevelt said, ‘we have nothing to fear but fear itself ’.”

@johnnewy6 added: “Infections do not correlate to matching amounts of deaths, if it did I could understand the urgency in controlling spread.”

@alabasterear wrote: “Perhaps now is the time to accept that we must live with this virus and follow the Swedish model?”