YW
I've looked at this from every angle Proth and I know the damage that is being done to the economy, and you are right that a fair bit of it is hindsight confirming gut feelings at the time - I was in Cape Verde when all this started and told my lad not to go to Cheltenham, but would I have had the balls to make a lockdown cal if I was running the country at the time, I don't know. My gut feeling was to lock down earlier the second time but my initial thought was that would be for two or three weeks, with hindsight that would have needed to be longer. The bottom line is that we've got into the worst of both worlds, more deaths / worse hit on economy than needed and that sits with the top table I'm afraid, and we've got to stumble on until next year like this because of the earlier decisions.
I've looked at this from every angle Proth and I know the damage that is being done to the economy, and you are right that a fair bit of it is hindsight confirming gut feelings at the time - I was in Cape Verde when all this started and told my lad not to go to Cheltenham, but would I have had the balls to make a lockdown cal if I was running the country at the time, I don't know. My gut feeling was to lock down earlier the second time but my initial thought was that would be for two or three weeks, with hindsight that would have needed to be longer. The bottom line is that we've got into the worst of both worlds, more deaths / worse hit on economy than needed and that sits with the top table I'm afraid, and we've got to stumble on until next year like this because of the earlier decisions.