UK Covid death toll

[Protheroe]

The problem with that Proth is that because of the delay the lockdown has to be harder and for longer so it has taken away more of your liberty and ability to run a business and more time for kids out of school. We will, more than likely, be locked down until March / April now whereas a lockdown to keep the numbers down around the half term and then an extended christmas break would have kept the numbers down, resulting in less deaths and also less time off schools. We could have moved along like that until April when we will have most of those that need it vaccinated.

You also seem tied to kids finishing education at 16 or 18, delaying their education is a million miles off denying it

And, we agree on this btw, you will regularly say that business owners take more risk and therefore deserve more reward when it is there, but there is another side to risk and unfortunately times like these mean that you can't have it both ways.

I'm afraid that's just conjecture, as evidenced by Wales who had a "firebreak" (remember those?).

I've answered your education point on the other thread. Your contention comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of the actualite.