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@JWestland
Long covid is quite a serious condition, some people are unable to work for months afterwards. It seems to affect 1/20 to 1/5 depending on who you ask.
Austerity is a political choice. Enormous amounts of cash pissed away on Brexit, if the government uses that as an argument "we have to reopen cos economy" pfff really.
They pissed away millions on their mates on crappy PPE mates contracts.
It is all really hard to weigh up, how to do you calculate death rates due to covid lockdown which are NOT part of their political choices AND which they can fix short-term if they want to VS long term problems with long covid which can also cause depression/leave people on permanent PIP which is...not great.
I'd be happy if they could do something like give vaccines first to very affected areas and let those kids / workers go back to school / work first, we can hold out another 2 months if we have to.