An early lockdown would have:
1. Minimised overall number of infections
2. Lowered R0 number
3. Saved lives
4. Reduced long term morbidity
5. Reduced burden on health services, allowing more non-#COVID19 services to have stayed open
6. Limited geographical spread around country
7. Allowed earlier release of lockdown
8. Reduced economic damage
9. Improved test, trace, isolate effectiveness
10. Bought more time and resources to help rebuild public health teams
11. Built trust in our political leaders, essential for ongoing public health messages
12. Increase the possibilty of preventing a second wave through ongoing stringent public health measures like test, trace, isolate, face masks etc whilst continuing to open up the economy over time
13. Buy more time to develop vaccine and more effective treatments
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14. Avoided the idiocy of a “herd immunity” without a vaccine policy, which was madness when we don’t know the natural history of this *novel* coronavirus
15. Prevented from having one of the world’s worst and most tragic responses to the #COVID19 pandemic
All of these reasons (and countless others) emphasise the catastrophic failure of leadership from #Johnson & #Cummings and the Conservative Government. We need a public inquiry now
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