The last ten months would have been better if people
HAD just carried on regardless.
All we are doing constantly by constantly chopping and changing is prolonging the total clusterfick that passes for life these days. At somepoint someone is going to need to stand up and accept that we're going to have to live (and possibly die) with it. May as well admit it already and get doing than hide indoors until the moon falls out of the sky
As they didn't bother shutting the doors at the first mention, then they shouldn't have bothered doing anything beyond looking to improve treatments and produce the vaccine. Whilst we are on the subject, WTF weren't the Nightingale hospitals used as Covid treatment centres from the second they were set up rather than completely stiffling the rest of the NHS?
And the figures are still irrelevant in the grand scheme of things... 464, 437 babies were born in England and Wales alone between January and September 2020. That's a net growth of over 386,000 people.
And what future are they going to have if the kids of today can't be properly educated? Not that there will be an economy for them to contribute to