Collateral Damage.

[10ClarionSt]

Boris the Black Knight and the other knights of his round table, must surely
have tried to anticipate the damage that lockdown would do to the country.
They must have known that businesses and jobs would be lost. Which businesses could be accepted as collateral damage? Pubs? Bars? Nail salons? Cafes? Haridressers and Barbers? He's not for budging is he? So he must have known the damage that would ensue from his govts actions. Collateral damage. You don't win wars without it.
This is Reginald Boozinget, News at Ten, Clarion St, Ancoats.

[tiggerblue10]

Very Elon Muskesque.

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> Their own spokesman last week (BBC News) said that 91% of deaths from CV-19 have been people with one, or a combination of, heart disease, diabetes and dementia.

Left unchecked to do its thing, it's likely that Coronavirus would kill about 600,000 in the UK.

Let's consider the 91% first, with heart disease, diabetes and dementia. That's 546,000 people. Many of those people are not on death's door. For example, plenty of people in their fifties have heart disease yet still a reasonable expectation of making it to their seventies and beyond, with surgery and medication. Most of those 546,000 people will have more than one person who loves them and would not want to see them die right now.

As for the other 9%, that's 54,000 people killed! No right-minded government would sanction that. Even if they did, if there was no lockdown, and hospitals, mortuaries, funeral parlours and crematoria were overwhelmed with hundreds of thousands dying in a short space of time, do you really believe it would be "business as usual" for everybody else? No, business owners and workers looking at the deaths would struggle to stomach them in the name of their businesses and jobs. It would be abysmal for national morale, for years to come. Future generations would look back and say "They were the ones who put money above life itself."

We are at war with Covid-19. We must not surrender to it.