Its not though. Its not a Brexit negotiation. It all comes down to how to halt the spread of the virus. Restarting the econony is just the result of that.
How isn't it? During this lockdown businesses are at risk of disappearing, jobs lost, the longer it goes on the more jobs and business disappear.
After the lockdown is over, those jobs won't suddenly return over night?
The risk of people breaking down mentally due to the financial impact is huge, suicides will and probably already have happened due to what is going on.
It's not really. Not yet anyway. Deaths from Covid far outweigh anything else at the moment.
At the moment being the key part of that.
I agree, a longer lockdown is needed, but I see it from the otherside too. A guy with a business which isn't making his usual 10k per month, now on 2800, and getting into more debt. He isn't being helped, things are going from bad to worse for him. I can understand why he would want lockdown to end.
I think lockdown could end, if we could trust people to be sensible.
If lockdown ended, I'd just go about business as I have for the past couple months, I'm social distancing at work, not meeting up with people anyway. I'd basically still be on a lockdown.
Idiots gonna idiot no matter if we say there's a lockdown or there isn't.
I know it's not ideal as it will make the NHS task more difficult again, but that's just how it is.
The only other option is a more strict lockdown which we cannot police anyway.
Just my opinions guys, don't go off the rails cos I CBA to argue.