Yet we in London, Heathrow's city, continue to outperform the rest of the country in respect of Covid-19, probably because of such as this, as I've already posted.
To protect the NHS the politicians wanted us to keep the infection rate low by isolating, but that was always impossible in our crowded city of London. Therefore it was a stupid and pointless policy, proving if ever it needed proof that one size never fits all.
So as I've been posting for weeks we broke all their silly rules and did our own thing here in London, ignoring politicians and police to suit our very different circumstances. That's been very effective, since we quickly had the highest infection rate by far and the highest consequences of course.
In other words, we got the first phase of the pandemic over quickly and may not even have a second phase. Those of us who were most likely to get infected got infected, the vulnerable who were likely to die anyway, did die.
So for a while now we are leading the country with very low rates and our NHS never got overwhelmed despite our cavalier attitudes. Indeed our hospitals have had to appeal for patients with other conditions to return for treatment to give them something to do, even A & Es being empty. The NHS struggled to find ANY patients for our 4000 bed Nightingale emergency hospital which has been a horribly expensive and ill advised white elephant.
I honestly wonder if it had been better to have never had any lockdown, carried on going to work and schools as usual, taken what would have been only a slightly bigger hit and saved the economy rather than the NHS.
That would have avoided the very long period of economic suffering we are now facing, which itself will result in a higher sickness and death rate of its own.
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