Until a day or so ago Boris Johnson advocated for a herd immunity when it was not proved to be true for Corona. So no, it did not call for same social distancing as other countries.
Herd immunity and social distancing aren't exclusive. You want both. Is it true that he called for no social distancing?
Is there a summary of the current recommendations? I mean surely gatherings etc are banned? Football is already cancelled, for example, as in other countries?
He didn’t do anything at all. Football was cancelled independently by the football league or whatever it is called some days later, boris was advocating for no action at all and even football and st Patrick parade where actively encouraged.
No, they said to do nothing different from normal at all, unless you are over 70 or you have cough. Guess who jumped from 10 deaths per day from yesterday to 14 per day today almost doubling the deads for two days in a row?
I think the advisors rational is that we're mostly going to get it anyway so let the young get it and keep the old folk at home.
I think it's unwise for a few reasons, not least that if we delay we may have better treatments. Stuff like chloroquine and keltra seems to work but there haven't really been the proper studies - that sort of stuff shouldn't take that long. And there may be a vaccine. (China rushing vaccine stuff https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/china-coronavirus-va...)
I thought the UK (and Sweden, Finland etc) differed mostly in not closing schools yet. Are there other significant differences?