Wigwam you produced a link to Brian Monteith with regards to the efficacy or otherwise of lockdowns. Is this the same person who was chief whip of the Brexit party in the European parliament and went mental in December 2019 shouting “freedom” and going on to make a pretty deranged speech? He is also a climate change denier and thinks that Socialism is far more likely to lead to extinction than climate change. Where do you dig these people up from?
The double graphs you highlighted were quite interesting though. As anyone knows the effects of a lock down can only be properly assessed after the event because like the manoeuvre of the proverbial supertanker it takes time. No one ever said that lockdowns on their own are a panacea for dealing with Covid. But they are effective in taking the pressure off the health service by reducing the level of transmission.
The lower the level of social interaction the lower the level of Covid transmission. What’s difficult to understand about that? Obviously I may be wrong but I expect as with previous lockdowns that the level of transmission will plateau and even reduce.