@richardh1905; ninthace
I respect your views. I'm not at the top of the risk pyramid, but not at the bottom either. My point is that this virus is unlikely to go away and that one cannot hide for ever. If I thought a long lockdown might cause it to do so, I'd take a different view. But, given its int'l dissemination I reckon it'll be there and waiting when we come out. In which case better (a) not to impoverish ourselves and (b) to face hazard in the summer than next flu season. So much for the economics and science of it, but poetry's often better and Housman captures my thinking, or comes close to it:
Far I hear the bugle blow
To call me where I would not go,
And the guns begin the song,
“Soldier, fly or stay for long.”
‘Comrade, if to turn and fly
Made a soldier never die,
Fly I would, for who would not?
’Tis sure no pleasure to be shot.
‘But since the man that runs away
Lives to die another day,
And cowards’ funerals, when they come,
Are not wept so well at home,
Therefore, though the best is bad,
Stand and do the best, my lad;
Stand and fight and see your slain,
And take the bullet in your brain.’
...... and, who knows, the odds are a damn sight better than at the Somme or Waterloo, even if you have the odd co-morbidity