I just don't get where the money comes from to pay for it? The countries borrowing is already basically the highest in history, add another lockdown to that and how do we pay for things like the NHS going forward?
Plus lockdowns have been shown to only be a temporary fix soon as you start to open up again it just goes to pot again.
So what do we do just keep having a lockdown every few months until we are utterly bankrupt?
I don’t have the answers to any of the points which are valid, but seeing the government’s own reports showing how the biggest spikes are in education and workplace settings (and having a wife/family/friends who work in education) whilst they steadfastly say they’re both staying open no matter what.
If this is the absolute redline in place then there has to be a trade-off, we cannot have schools and workplaces and pubs and restaurants and gyms and leisure centres and shops all open at the same time, no matter the arbitrary closures in place.
You either have schools open and close off other sectors, or accept that schools may have to close again.
Again, I accept there is no easy or all-encompassing answer to this, but what’s happening at present is clearly not working. We’re seeing increasing lockdown restrictions over wider areas of the country but the numbers just keep on jumping higher and higher. Hospitals are getting more and more loaded again and we need something to break this cycle, otherwise the other option is letting the virus run through us.