I was saying earlier that whoever makes the decision in terms of ending the lockdown, I just hope they make it following scientific and medical advice.
As far as I’m aware that Imperial college research team was set up to advise the government. They produced their report and the government followed their advice.
Do I think the government and their advisors hoped they wouldn’t have to put the country into full lockdown, yes. When it became apparent that there wouldn’t be the capacity in the health service to deal with the pandemic without a lockdown they implemented those measures. I don’t believe that’s editing history.
ps as I’ve said before, the bigger question for me is did they utilise the time they brought themselves with the good initial track and trace (self isolation) policy to get other areas in order. such as ventilator numbers/orders (we’ll probably find out this/next week - I hope so but not sure) and testing of NHS staff and their families to ensure workforce is not kept away from frontline unnecessarily (appears not currently). I still can’t get my head around the PPE distribution situation, apparently 300m+ pieces of PPE was distributed over the last fortnight. So it appears to be there, just some hospitals etc are running out and not getting replenishments quickly enough.