All the experts point out that lockdowns are an emergency measure which has to be applied after less damaging solutions have failed to control the virus. Unless you can tolerate very long and severe lockdowns their aim is merely to buy time to fix the less damaging solutions (and keep our hospitals from collapsing). Ceasing or reducing a lockdown inevitably sends the numbers back up if the shortcomings have still not been fixed - as we have seen several times.
Our failed solution is test, track and isolate which numerous countries have used much more effectively. Lockdown will eventually fail again because Boris refuses to acknowledge its shortcomings. Whether or not it is the real cause, he has now latched on to "new strain" as his excuse to U-turn (again) and ignore the underlying problem (again).
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