The thing is hasn't lockdown just prolonged this whole thing. As in, pandemic happens, ya can't stop it, so you try and slow it down. And ok we did that. Round of applause for us. But now we have to get back to normal. Cases will rise as soon as we open back up. Obvious. Always been obvious. Was totally acceptable when we were trying to flatten the curve.
Now apparently totally unacceptable and we must stop cases happening at all costs. That ain't what we signed up for.
Yes Sweden has had lots of deaths. But they will get back to normal considerably faster than we will by opening and closing things all day bleeding every day.
Basically without a vaccine this is our life now. Sorry but no, totally unacceptable. I'd rather die than live like this for another 6 months, a year, two years. It's not a life it's an existence. It's mental torture not knowing what will happen next, not having any control over your own life. You can't plan anything without the huge risk of losing any money you spent on it and of course being hugely dissapointed every time something doesn't go to plan.
How many people are we saving here?
Because, arguably, many (no not all I won't even say most) of the people who died of this were v vulnerable and something as simple as a bad bout of noro could have taken their lives, and in the next year or so would have.
Equally we've now caused early deaths of around 60k cancer patients many of whom with the right treatment wouldn't have died in the next year or so. Many of them much younger than covid victims.
Also abuse victims who wouldn't otherwise have died, and the whole generation who will grow up in a shite economy and have a lower life expectancy and worse health outcomes which come alongside that.
It's a hard balancing act. I wouldn't like to be responsible for it and I think it'll be the end of Boris Johnsons political career. It could have been the moment he proved he wasn't one big fucking joke, but alas.