@Baggiebuckster
We're probably not as far apart as you think BB, I think that a month long (limited) lockdown was unnecessary and that a shorter one when hospitalisations started to rise would have done the job.
My thoughts are, and I have no proof or basis on this other than gut, that the virus started to move from the North East, North West into the Midlands and this is what spooked the govt because they didn't want to risk it growing in London again. Now there can be two schools of thought here, 1stly that they have been through it once and were heavily hit therefore they would not have been affected because they have immunity. That would be disproven if they did take a hit, and that is a gamble to find out. Or secondly, they knew how close we were to a vaccine so why gamble with anything at all when a solution is so close.
We're probably not as far apart as you think BB, I think that a month long (limited) lockdown was unnecessary and that a shorter one when hospitalisations started to rise would have done the job.
My thoughts are, and I have no proof or basis on this other than gut, that the virus started to move from the North East, North West into the Midlands and this is what spooked the govt because they didn't want to risk it growing in London again. Now there can be two schools of thought here, 1stly that they have been through it once and were heavily hit therefore they would not have been affected because they have immunity. That would be disproven if they did take a hit, and that is a gamble to find out. Or secondly, they knew how close we were to a vaccine so why gamble with anything at all when a solution is so close.