Lockdown is required when there is a risk of more paitents from an infectious disease than there are beds. Lockdown isn't the purpose, the purpose is to stop th

Lockdown is required when there is a risk of more paitents from an infectious disease than there are beds. Lockdown isn't the purpose, the purpose is to stop the number of new paitents requiring hospital from outnumbering the number of paitents leaving hospital (either walking or in a bodybag) When was the last last time we had a disease that spread this quickly and caused this many hospitalisations, on a global scale?