| Comment | Mmm.
Twitter keeps screaming that we should close schools and universities, but as the CMO said, none of these things are simple or without downside or they'd be done. Folk love to think there's a big red button and silver bullet.
You can't close universities outright because they conduct research. Every wet lab experiment kaput? No new medical cohort in August? No.
Ditto, you close schools and the kids go stay with grandparents or inevitably play together anyway, and if we close schools, they're probably closed until August.
For once, I'm slightly on the side of the Tories that thinking about the economy after all of this *does* matter for public health. It'll hit a lot of people like an absolute train.
It's hard stuff. |
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