guy_incognito
The overall deaths for the year have not yet been published with the breakdown but while there "May" be excess deaths it may not be at the scale that has justified destroying UK economy for the next decade.
What has not been thought through is the "mental and psychological" impact on people.
I sadly have known people who lost family members in nursing homes, NOT from Covid, cut off from seeing family members for months and not understanding why, quite a few gave up, just laid down and died.. There was not jut in UK either.
Travel is based on confidence but there is more than that. It relies on people having cash to spend and willing to do so. People in a lot of cases will be better off at this point in time due to furloughing, WFH etc BUT many people also know their jobs are insecure. Job insecurity is here for a while hence people will see this year out before making big cash spend..