Following the science?

[Protheroe]

You've been crying for weeks about the lockdown being too harsh, ours was hardly Wuhan style military on the streets. We didn't even go as far as France or Spain, yet you wanted it eased. That report shows why we needed it as the minimum, it's also clear that we didn't lock down early or hard enough. If we'd have done that at the time, we'd be in a much better position to save the economy now. As it stands we went half measures and have to pay the price now.

The report comes from a group of scientists seeking to justify what we've done.

If you've been paying attention these last few weeks you'll have heard all manner of 'scientific' contributions to the debate. I have. There is no settled science on this matter whatsoever.

That said, the government has played a terrible game with the crap hand it was dealt.

I know I'm not alone in believing all our kids should be at school now, that the 2m distancing is based on no evidence whatsoever, that the chances for asymptomatic spread are negligible as are the chances of catching this outdoors too. That's from listening to scientists.

I look forward to the inevitable Public Inquiry into this catastrophe for our economy. Then we can start the finger pointing.

It will become abundantly clear that we've sacrificed freedoms, our children's education and the economy on a vague threat to NHS capacity that has never been tested in 12 weeks. And now we're going to have 10 million people on the NHS waiting list. Thank God I can afford health insurance for the family.