Who knows if a bioethics professor is qualified to discuss the economy, what will happen with the economy and whether the situation with the New York economy is the same as the UK? You only have to look at the markets, which seem to suggest the problem is sorted, to realise the risk in listening to anyone
We should never have got where we are - closing the borders and track and trace in January would have possibly prevented the need for lockdown in the UK, and the phytogenetics suggest it would also have prevented the New York pandemic....but from where we are now we cant release lockdown until new cases are at a level we can track and trace. Of the nine major countries that are releasing lockdown, 4 had new cases in single figures and the others were at a few hundred a day. The UK is at around 4000 positive new tests a day so the true new infection rate is well above anything we can control. To save the economy, and therefore to save aviation in the long term, we need to close the borders and keep lockdown now. My catchphrase would be 'short and sharp'
What will actually happen will I suspect be quite different....