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Originally Posted by Paul
Pretty sure the "public" is actually more than one person.
Plenty of activities were restricted, unless you now believe the "restrictions" actually restricted nothing.
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Nobody is disputing that the public is more than one person, however if one considers restrictions in a balanced (as opposed to in an ideological) way it represented a far more open economy than the various levels of restrictions that preceded it.
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long suffering public could equally be attributed to those being denied routine healthcare and treatments because of the decision to run the pandemic at close to maximum NHS capacity in the hope for an economic outcome that will never be realised. ONS surveys have 91% of those who were clinically extremely vulnerable still restricting their activities, and passenger surveys have the number of commuters at approx 50% of the normal levels. None of that creates a better healthcare or economic outcome if consumers continue to self-select their way out of the economy.