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Staying in lockdown will result in people dying who would not have died otherwise. That has the capacity for killing far more than 1% of the population if lockdown is enforced long enough for irreversible damage to be done to the economy. One is a virus, the other is mega-austerity. One is nature, the other is a political choice.
I agree entirely. My point wasn't that it shouldn't happen because of those deaths. Simply drawing attention to that fact that there will be deaths in response to some of the posts above that read a bit like "we can't risk any lives!".
Staying in lockdown will result in people dying who would not have died otherwise. That has the capacity for killing far more than 1% of the population if lockdown is enforced long enough for irreversible damage to be done to the economy. One is a virus, the other is mega-austerity. One is nature, the other is a political choice.
The Government has the unenviable task of choosing what to do and, effectively, which group of people die "early". There's no solution where no-one dies unnecessarily apart from a unicorn riding up to No 10 with instructions for a perfect vaccine around its neck.
The C4 series with Dr Xand is good (episode 1 is all that has been out so far) and covers this (not the unicorn):-
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/when-will-lockdown-end