RE: Is covid19 going away? I don't think so.28 Jun 2020 16:10
It is also the case that the lockdown was imposed to stop the NHS getting overwhelmed. A hospital in North London was apparently approaching that, and the Govt wanted to avoid the sort of pictures coming out of Spain and Italy of people dying in corridors. Labour would never ever have let that go. They panicked, and locked down. They were quite open that it was about protecting the NHS. And it is now clear that even a bad second wave won’t overwhelm the NHS. It honestly is not that clear how many lives have been saved by locking down. But the virus is still around, it’s not going anywhere, and Govt will never admit lockdown might not have been necessary. So they will buy good tests, in vast quantities. It will reassure the public, and hey, it ain’t their money, is it?