//And how much do you think lockdown2 will cost?//
I’ve really no idea. And if politicians have half the sense they were born with we won’t find out.
//Lockdown2 could possibly have been avoided.//
How? Before you answer, consider this: the only way to prevent the virus spreading, as mushroom points out, is to keep everybody away from everybody else. Even if you could do it (which you can’t) assuming you do not intend doing that forever (or until we all die of starvation or a vaccine is developed and all 7bn of us have been given it) then as soon as people start mixing with each other again the spread will resume. The partial lockdowns that we have had so far – including the “national” version which began in March - do nothing other than to slow the spread for their duration. So, lockdown v2 can be avoided. But it needs those allegedly running the show to accept that lockdown v1 was a failure. It slowed the spread for a while but that’s all it did. They need to accept that the virus will spread and they also need to accept that whatever edicts they introduce, whatever the size of the fines they threaten, people will socialise. Alas there doesn’t seem to be much sign of that acceptance.
I cannot remember who said it but someone said that doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is one of the first signs of madness.