Bit unfair, Nick.
I've said several times that the policy this government absolutely needs to implement is one of test-trace-isolate - and it was you, Xioni & others explaining it that convinced me.
Will they do this? Almost certainly not, because they seem unwilling to devote the substantial level of resources required (which seems odd given the money the lockdown is costing) and impose some temporary curtailment of civil liberties.
So that leaves us in, like I say, a limbo between now and a vaccine being widely distributed. I don't believe the economy can sustain this level of economic stasis for much longer. I don't want the impact of this to lead to economic depression (and grow ever more fearful that Sunak won't use 'helicopter money' to pay for all this), which under a typically heartless Tory regime would lead to way more than a few hundred lives a day lost (a conservative - 'scuse the pun - estimate of lives lost to austerity is 100,000) and deliver a ready-made excuse to slash public services and welfare payments even more.
I'm not buying the government propaganda, just trying to view the wider societal picture and implications beyond the prism of CV.
Originally Posted by: Saint Snow