{"id":50304,"date":"2020-05-30T07:29:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=50304"},"modified":"2020-05-30T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:29:51","slug":"50304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/05\/30\/50304\/","title":{"rendered":"The scientists will not accept responsibility for the excess deaths the government is about to deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is an important development:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is hugely important. SAGE members rebelling &amp; speaking out: too early to lift lockdown. The \u2018clear science advice\u2019 is being ignored by the government. This is so critical. We cannot &amp; should not trust the govt &amp; we need clear independent alternative leadership <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fvlA9nhvxb\">https:\/\/t.co\/fvlA9nhvxb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carolecadwalla\/status\/1266485485268086784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The scientists have had enough of standing beside the government. They\u2019re now saying that the government is not following their advice.<\/p>\n<p>The genie is out of their bag. They think that the scientific evidence suggests that lockdown is being released too early in the UK, just as we went into it too late.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re very clearly passing the buck. They\u2019re saying the excess deaths will not be their responsibility. The decision to unlock is political. The politicians will have to accept the responsibility for it.<\/p>\n<p>My instincts are that they are right, based on what I read and hear.<\/p>\n<p>This could, like so much else happening now, have horrid consequences.<\/p>\n<p>There is more on this story in the Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/covid-19-spreading-too-fast-to-lift-uk-lockdown-sage-adviser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on this story in the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is an important development: This is hugely important. SAGE members rebelling &amp; speaking out: too early to lift lockdown. The \u2018clear science<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/05\/30\/50304\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}