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Originally Posted by Donger

Actually, some people were. Nationally, ~40% of deaths have come from nursing homes. The unfortunate reality is that no-elderly people staff nursing homes. Even with efforts to keep those staff from introducing the virus into homes, they have.

I don't know any major names in public health that said to do nothing. This is a strawman argument for your lockdowns.

Prof Woolhouse OBE, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours that advises the Government, said: “Lockdown was a panic measure and I believe history will say trying to control Covid-19 through lockdown was a monumental mistake on a global scale, the cure was worse than the disease.

“I never want to see national lockdown again. It was always a temporary measure that simply delayed the stage of the epidemic we see now. It was never going to change anything fundamentally, however low we drove down the number of cases, and now we know more about the virus and how to track it we should not be in this position again.

“We absolutely should never return to a position where children cannot play or go to school.

“I believe the harm lockdown is doing to our education, health care access, and broader aspects of our economy and society will turn out to be at least as great as the harm done by Covid-19.”

He said that Sage, the government’s advisory board on dealing with Covid, needed to have members from a wider range of fields.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...-Boris-Johnson