The media have created a massive amount of hysteria over COVID.
Yes, people are dying and any death is one too many.
But if you read the press, or MN, or social media you would imagine that everyone who contracts COVID is going to die when in fact this is far from the case.
You could also be forgiven for thinking that we went into lockdown in order to eradicate the virus,we didn’t.We went into lockdown in order to be sure the NHS could cope. And it is.
If the NHS in Scotland isn’t coping then why are people not asking the kinds of questions they have been asking of Boris,i.e. talking about how she has failed the Scottish people,how the Scottish death rate is still rising and why the Scottish NHS is failing to cope.If England were still in complete lockdown you can bet your life that people would be saying those things.
Yes,a lockdown needed to happen,although interestingly there are some countries e.g. Sweden who have managed without going into lockdown, but equally the economy does still need to be supported. Anyone who says that the government are prioritising the economy over lives is being incredibly short-sighted. COVID is a short term thing. And actually,if no vaccine is found it will be a longer term virus in which case being in lockdown will be unsustainable in the medium/long term and there will come a time when wee need to take our chances against the virus.
People need to work,need to eat, need to support their families,and they need social contact. And as harsh as it sounds there comes a point where we need to weigh up the needs of the few against the needs of the many. And while people don’t want to believe it, the few are actually those with COVID. Even with high numbers the proportion of people with COVID is very low when compared to the UK population as a whole.
If we stay in lockdown the unemployment rate will far exceed the COVID infection rate.
There has to be a balance.