The country can afford it & more fact is most people think that tax & spend is like a household budget. You have income & you can only spend what you have as income. We’re in full control of our currency (unlike Eurozone countries for example) & we have all manner of ways of dealing with spending & borrowing.
Like the Tories in insisting on running a Surplus that is foolish to aspire to as a gov running a surplus isn’t saving money for a rainy day they’re actively taking money out of the economy undermining it.
Also think of taxation not as creating money but it’s actually destroying it, when money is held by government its not money its just a piece of paper (plastic) that represent gov liability returned to it.
Anyway it gets really weird & complex but it’s very different from how some would have you look at it.
Things will not be returned to any sense of normality inside 12 weeks, we’re still on our way up the graph right now with prospect of exponential growth, God knows how much damage was done this weekend with everyone taking the pee.
The gov may have to look at other measures to get manufacturing up & running but for the vast majority working in offices etc we’ll still be locked down I suspect.
Given the disaster that Johnson etc have been with cock up after cock up, unfortunately I can see this getting much much worse. We’re still only testing 5000 a day should be 25,000, the company that makes our ICU equipment still hadn’t received any NHS orders as of last week. Matt Hancock lied about meeting with supermarkets to assure food supplies, Raab the incompetent is Johnson’s understudy ffs, they lied about PPE, lied about herd immunity, introduced measures for PAYE support but not self employed, closed schools without thinking about a lock down & second schools closed some started holidaying.
With a government that efficient and organised & on the ball with energetic creative thinking there’s no way this is going to be under control with 12 weeks. I also suspect we’re being lied to, numerous under 40 Dr’s, nurses, midwives are in the ICU now, numerous people under 30 Inc a 12 year old girl are fighting for their lives, Linda Lusardi is in early 60s & fit (ooer) & she nearly died too these people were fit & healthy before the virus & not in the at risk groups. I suspect we’re not being told the whole truth coupled with the fact a Dr can issue a death cert without seeing the body & no coroner required makes me wonder if figures are being massaged to try & keep us calm.