No one wants a lockdown - so why are we hearing about 'lockdown cheerleaders'? | Stephen Buranyi

The UK government fumbled its sophisticated tools in its efforts to tackle Covid-19, so now it's reaching for the blunt one

Nobody wants a lockdown. You'd think that would go without saying. As England faces a three-tier system of regionally unequal lockdowns or the possibility of a national circuit breaker", there is no one sitting around thinking, Oh good, time to tank the economy, halt NHS services, and wreck everyone's mental health, again. I love this." That's perverse, and such a person surely doesn't exist.

And yet I've been hearing a lot about this supposedly pro-lockdown person lately. There is certainly a vocal, self-identified anti-lockdown position: pro-business, anti-disruption, with a sudden interest in both herd immunity and Sweden. But who, according to those in the anti-lockdown camp and their supporters in the media, opposes this position?