Britain's double shame: coronavirus deaths and economic collapse | Simon Jenkins
by Simon Jenkins from on (#542J9)
Lockdown is likely to go down in history as the UK's most costly policy failure of modern times
Quick. Open schools. Pull back the police. Roll out test and trace. Get the pubs working. Boris is in trouble. Help him out. Ensure daily good news.
Thank you, Dominic Cummings. Any pretence that lockdown is led by the science" has always been rubbish. It has been an exercise in social control by an initially panic-driven government. However laudatory its aim, its execution has been driven by graphic predictions validated by highly selective science. Now it is hurting people and hurting him. This is politics.
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