Dr John Lee, Retired Professor of Pathology, writing in The Spectator:
Even if one could understand why lockdown was imposed, it very rapidly became apparent that it had not been thought through. Not in terms of the wider effects on society (which have yet to be counted) and not even in terms of the ways that the virus itself might behave.
…at the start, there was hardly any evidence. Everyone was guessing. Now we have a world of evidence, from around the globe, and the case for starting to reverse lockdown is compelling.
…Covid is not, in fact, an extraordinarily lethal pathogen, just a nasty one, similar to many others.
…our new normal should look very much like our old, perhaps with the addition of some social responsibility in the face of respiratory illness. It is the only way for us to live in the world.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ten-reasons-to-end-the-lockdown-now