M-m-m-my Corona…

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I’m not sure that’s entirely rational (although nor am I saying we should bury our heads in the sand).

Like it or not life has an economic value. We don’t set the speed limit to 10mph on all roads just because it would save lives. As a society we try to strike a balance.

The point about this situation is we don’t know what’s the right balance as we have highly imperfect information. So we’re taking a safety first approach. We’ll not know till afterwards (if ever) whether that was the right thing to do. So we can argue about that till the cows come home.

But it would be a very brave government that just said carry on as normal and didn’t try to limit this. Hard to argue with the approach that’s being taken in broad terms.

It was entirely irrational, that was the stark point I was making.
When we hear of 21 year old youths with no underlying medical issues dying, or 26 year old doctors that were treating cases in India dying, then surely the rational thing to do is to try and limit it as much as we can

I accept, we don't know the actual numbers, because we have not effectively been able to measure all suspect cases, however when you see that in the UK and in the world, the active cases are continuing to grow, then we MUST do something about it