I accept that deaths from cancer may now go up, but if lock down hadn't have happened, those people would have died anyway. As would lots, of the other groups who are missing hospital appointments. That's if this virus was circulating.
The Government advised social distancing, but none of the shops implemented it and no one took any notice. So we don't know what the death figures would have been.
Not everyone has cars to get about in. We haven't been able to keep the correct distance away on buses and the football etc would have continued.
We did the right thing by locking down, it should have been done sooner. We ate concentrating on deaths, but the hospital admissions would have brought the NHS to its knees and treatments would have stopped.
The time people spend in hospital haven't been a barrel of laughs, either. We are starting to hear from people who have survived it. Younger people who have been left with serious health problems including lung and kidney damage. We didn't know enough about it at the start to not lock down.
We needed to have plans in place for all groups in our society, the homeless, the prison population, those forced to sign on, those on probation or seeking asylum, vulnerable people in work and education. It would have been impossible to do an even softer lockdown.
We aren't going to be competing with other countries who are in any better position than us. All of our economies are being fucked. But a global response was needed at the time.