If it it takes hold, people will not want to go to pubs, cinemas, shops or offices, so economic normality will be impossible anyway.
Growing anti-lockdown sentiment among northern Labour mayors and councils offer him new opportunities – and dangers.
The Government’s cost-benefit analysis showed that the impacts of the lockdown were greater than those of the direct Covid-19 deaths.
If we follow Spain and France, and test and trace doesn’t improve, the mood on the Tory backbenches is likely to shift towards a Sweden-style solution.
More tests, quick tracing, quarantine and mini-shutdowns if necessary (not the closure of whole cities and metropolitan areas) are the best-in-class solution.
Enhancing its domestic production can help “level up” Britain and reduce the carbon footprint from imports.
With the NHS in no danger of collapse, and lower hospitalisation and death rates, test-and-trace, not lockdowns, must take the strain.
The latest data on cases and death rates across the continent.
“Now is the time for everyone to rally round and really fire up the economy together”, said the Chancellor. Hear, hear.
Singapore, Australia and other countries experienced difficulties; the important thing is learning from these and improving matters.
Having correctly judged that there would be no immediate vaccine, it opted for a sustainable response.
Staying at home is, like anything else, habit-forming. Getting people to come out of lockdown is the hard part of the Government’s plan.
Making unused council building space available will allow greater space for pupils to be educated safely.
The country’s leading epidemiologist seems to have abandoned his Coronavirus strategy, according to newspaper reports. But the truth is more complicated.
Those advocating such an option must be clear that this extraordinary human cost is something that they are willing to have others pay.