[user104658]

This is ignoring the uncomfortable truth that everyone seems super keen to ignore - that not all of the excess deaths are Covid. People are dying more than usual of all sorts of things, because services are shut down, no one can see a GP, no one can get through to NHS 111, people arent being diagnosed with potentially fatal health problems like sepsis, people having strokes and heart attacks ignore symptoms because they're too scared to go to A&E. People don't have adequate access to normal healthcare.

This has been coming for months and this is just the start; in a few months we'll start to see the impact of missed cancer diagnoses. ONE paper finally had a headline about this yesterday. Everyone has been hyper focused on the pandemic and now we're starting to see the very real toll that will have... Because whilst it might seem that "all that matters is the virus" right now... It's just not true and the non-Covid death toll caused by lockdown is going to start soaring. There was always going to be a cost. Too many people have tried to pretend for too long that there wasn't, and this is the absolute tip of the iceberg.