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> Lockdown was the only thing that stopped case numbers going up till the vaccine came along. Really? The graphs I have seen show cases declining even before l

> Lockdown was the only thing that stopped case numbers going up till the vaccine came along. Really? The graphs I have seen show cases declining even before lockdowns were imposed. > The average age in the UK is 40. So pretty much half the population would need to completely isolate from the other half while the younger half lived their lives as normal. The advice would have been the same, work from homes where possible. There was already the concept of "bubbles".

dageshi 4y ago
> Really? The graphs I have seen show cases declining even before lockdowns were imposed. Likely because people were voluntarily locking down. Unless you deal with schools, there are no "bubbles" or not ones that really work. Do you send teachers into schools who are in the vulnerable group? Or do you close the schools? If you close the schools you may as well do a full lockdown because so many people will have to be at home to look after their children. The idea you can lockdown half the population by age just doesn't work because society doesn't separate itself out neatly by age.