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					Originally Posted by OLD BOY  If the 15 February deadline is met for treating the elderly and vulnerable, hospital admissions will reduce drastically by the turn of the month and we should be able to end the lockdown and ease the restrictions. By April, I don't see the need for any restrictions at all, provided that deadline is met and the variants don't start getting up to further mischief, like attacking the younger people as well. | 
	
 If the elderly and vulnerable are all treated by 15th February, why do you propose locking down the country in March?
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					Originally Posted by Hugh  Why would all the Governments of the world, even the ones who hate each other, do this? | 
	
 I'm guessing that Pierre thinks that we need to exaggerate the global pandemic as people wouldn't comply with the restrictions if we told it "accurately".