That would not save the myriads of small businesses which rely on customer footfall to keep the cashflow up to speed.
We should come out of lockdown, but with proper shielding for the vulnerable and proper testing, track and trace in operation.
There is no earthly reason why a young woman should not be able to visit the hairdressers or why a healthy chap like Beast should not be able to go down to the boozer for a pint or two.
Well, there is a good reason: the young woman or a healthy chap can spread the virus to others who are more at risk. That's exactly why we have been through this period of restrictions.
You may be fed up with arguing about closing the borders but no more than I'm fed up with the inability of people to grasp the 'bleeding obvious' (which, apparently, is now an acceptable expression). Suggesting that everyone in the more vulnerable groups should be locked away ('shielded') is absurd; and of course fails because it assumes that all those in vulnerable groups are known, when quite clearly they are not.
Maybe you missed the report this evening that the figures suggest the R value has crept up to 1 again, even before the latest very modest relaxation of the restrictions. Coming out of 'lockdown' would simply drive R above 1 and, like a game of snakes and ladders, see us slide back to the bottom again.
Relaxing prematurely is a nonsense: dangerous and almost inevitably counterproductive.
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