Lockdown should stay for a bit longer no slackening now. The pressure on the government to let people have some freedom is immense it's a no win situation.
All the costs of loans, furloughing etc are being offset by the lack of state pensions now eligible to be paid.
The world can't beat cancer so what's to say they can beat Covid-19?
30k people died
About 20k of them would have died anyway through cancer/diabetes/alzheimers or any number of other conditions - 670k people die every year in the uk.
I don't think the 10,000 pensions saved will cover the £250bn it's cost up to now.
People keep saying "when this is all over..."
This could be as over as it's going to be - there may never be a working vaccine, which means we have to get used to living with it.
It's like cancer or any other disease the human race has to live with.
Hiding under the stairs indefinitely isn't going to make it go away and it will destroy millions of lives of people who have never got it, we cannot live like this forever and economies the world over certainly cannot handle it for any prolonged periods.
America and Mexico have got it totally wrong but other countries like Italy and Spain have got it right with careful and slow easing of restrictions.
Shield the most vulnerable. Widespread testing and the antibody tests will make it easier for grandparents to hug their grandkids.
Other than that it's just something we have to accept until something good happens, like a vaccine or herd immunity but neither are guaranteed, there's little evidence saying that those who have had it can't get it again, and quite a bit of evidence saying that people have had it two or more times