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Originally Posted by Pierre
not indefinitely.
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Indeed, however nobody is claiming that will be necessary. An effective lockdown to get the numbers down, followed by an appropriately scaled testing programme, working at home for anyone who can, screening at airports and social distancing could see sections of the economy opening up in a few weeks to a few months at most allowing Government to target support at those areas that cannot open up.
This only gets dragged out longer if we make a hash of it, encounter a deadly second wave, the NHS collapses under pressure and we end up back at square one - something that genuinely would have devastating economic consequences because relatively speaking other countries would not be in the same position at the same time allowing them to get competitive advantage in international markets while we have to shut everything down.