UK Covid death toll

[Protheroe]

Are saying no lockdown measures at all apart from asking everyone shielding to stay in their houses plus their families? How many times have you dodged this question now?

No, that's entirely a figment of your imagination. Repeated ad nauseum.

So apart from shielding, what protections to public health would you put in place?

Social distancing, testing & contact tracing. Protection for the homeless and asylum seekers. Masks if you want to, even though there's not much evidence they help. That's pretty much it.

Mass suppression will cost at least as many lives (and far more livelihoods) than it saves. The latest suggestion that we'll be in this situation for a further six months will lay waste to swathes of the economy. And like it or not, there is an opportunity cost decision to make.