An acceptable trade off ?
Yes I know that the Lockdown is extremely damaging to the economy and it might seem to be an excessive response to protect the 99% of victims who are very old or who have multiple medical conditions.
But consider this :
Among the remaining 1%, there are thousands of people with very productive lives ahead of them. This includes many highly skilled and experienced healthcare professionals., people that we may all need to depend on one day. They are courageously putting the lives on the line now to treat Coronavirus patients at close quarters.
Most troubling of all is that, as of 15th April, TWENTY SIX public transport workers in London (mainly bus drivers) have also died. They did not have to get as close as clinicians to their customers but they still caught it. If we come off lockdown too early, I fear a second spike which may kill many of our friends, relations and colleagues. Many will be in customer facing roles. Can we really return to ‘normal’ before we have a vaccine? Who will want to work in a customer facing role ? Who would want to go on a plane? What sort of a normal will that be ?
A terrible dilemma.
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