A cost-benefit analysis will have set the acceptable level of Covid-19 deaths before restrictions are reintroduced at around 1,000 deaths a week, two Government advisers have told i.
Downing
Street has denied it has set any “acceptable level” of Covid deaths but
one adviser, who has been close to the Government since coronavirus
struck 18 months ago, told i
that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had privately accepted that there
would be at least a further 30,000 deaths in the UK over the next year,
and that the Prime Minister would “only consider imposing further
restrictions if that figure looked like it could rise above 50,000”.
The source is quoted by the i:
“The Prime Minister is minded to implement another
lockdown or new restrictions only if the figure of annual deaths looks
like it’s going to go above 50,000. That means deaths from Covid of 137 a
day, or just under 1,000 a week.
“However, it won’t be an
immediate reaction. A sustained rate of death of around a 1,000 a week
for two or three weeks will, though, lead to discussion on restrictions
being reimposed. Unfortunately, prime ministers have to weigh up the
cost of saving lives to the impact on the economy. No one wants to talk
about that’s how it works.”
Let us trust that FAKE SAGE don't try to kill off this bout of common sense!
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