Gemma Tetlow: given that we know the government cares about more than just covid mortality, the five tests are an imperfect guide to how it thinks about exiting lockdown
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There is not enough information available to produce anything like a Grand Plan, including unknowns about people's behaviour, how the economy reacts, do people spend their hoarded savings?
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Alex Thomas: we don't have a framework against which to make exiting decisions, yet - as they appear to have in the Republic of Ireland
AT: there needs to be a judicious mix of clarity and humility in terms of accepting mistakes and correcting for them. But a blatant U-turn on e.g. opening schools would be very difficult politically
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Cath Haddon raises an interesting angle: the legal restrictions. Can you tell one class of people to stay at home and not another?
And there are four different lockdowns, in fact: one for each devolved nation
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