While I’m not going to be booking a holiday (wasn’t planning to anyway) and sure as hell wouldn’t want to be going on a cruise at this point in time, people are being incredibly naive over the threat to the economy.
The “I’m alright jack” mentality applies just as much to those who believe the entire country should go into lockdown as it apparently does for those who are still going to work and going about their daily lives.
It’s interesting how remainers were talking about the long-term damage to the economy that was going to be brought about by Brexit, when the damage to the economy if the country shuts down over Coronavirus will potentially be irreversible and on a much bigger scale than Brexit would ever have been.
And in truth we don’t know what the impact of Brexit on the economy was going to be. The impact from lockdown is a fact. Hundreds of thousands of job losses, perhaps even millions.
The travel industry collapsing, the childcare industry collapsing due to closures meaning that people will have to give up work to look after their children, and the impact that in turn is going to have.
The numbers of other companies who will go out of business,and likely the obliteration of the NHS and the social care system because it won’t be able to cope with lack of funding (on the part of the NHS) and the increase in numbers of people needing financial help due to the obliteration of the economy.
I was a remainer FWIW, but it seems that people choose when something is important and when it isn’t.
During Brexit people were quite happily accusing those who voted leave of signing the death warrants of millions of citizens because of the damage Brexit was supposedly going to do, now those same people are saying it’s a small price to pay.