[Margaret Pilkington]

I have not seen those figures before.
Did Norway have a lockdown?
Sweden did not...so businesses and trade was allowed to continue...people were allowed to mix sensibly.
I would also ask if either of these countries closed their borders to incoming flights.

We continued to import whatever anyone was bringing in with them and no checks of any description were carried out on incomers.
When the major lockdown was eased they started talking about testing the people coming in to the country...but I don’t think it ever got up and running.

So the whole debacle was mishandled(and mishandled in a multitude of ways) right from the outset.

You are right though Jimmy, this lockdown won’t work.....except it was instituted on bogus figures and it is being mooted that the R rate is already down to 1....so maybe they will portray that it HAS worked...release us a little bit....then come New year when the Blanket tests are being done on everybody(or everybody who wants to have the test) in Liverpool show the infection rate is up, then we will have a rerun of this rotten business.

It is all calculated as a control measure.
They can do what they want.....and the people have become so scared that they want MORE of these draconian measures.