Yep - that is a little embarrassing - unless you consider the flattening to be a policy which is working. Ultimately the UK is trying to buy time and keep as many alive as possible. This is about easing the pressure, not prevention.
We are all on the way to getting it. Far from the madding crowd. Later rather than sooner.
Only history will tell which country did it better.
'managed to catch the virus long before it even spread.'
While we are on the subject of 'pure gold' .... is you name Trump by any chance?
