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Originally Posted by jfman

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Once you're in actual lockdown that's it for months as the road to easing restrictions gets trodden a further time.

Sensible measures should be considered to prevent lockdown if cases are seen to rise exponentially. Hospitalisations and deaths only follow, albeit at a lower rate than previously.

Without sensible measures people will only stay home themselves and not spend money in any case. City centres will never recover.

I did the maths a few posts ago. Sensible measures have been taken by way of past lockdowns and an accelerating vaccination programme. The convergence of vaccinations and antibodies through infections is not many months (or weeks) away. Then we move into normalcy as per annual booster/variant jabs.

As regards city centres - yes, the damage has been done, I would say. At least in the short term.