Certainly seems to have been the overriding business plan for Brighton town El Pres. Jerry Building student tower blocks all over the place. London Road, Lewes Road etc etc. Fair enough it's an improvement on what was there before. But it'll be a decade before the numbers come back to allow the...
Sorry, not buying it.
Parts of Northern Italy were under full lockdown with highly distressing photos coming out of their overwhelmed hospitals. As NSC noted at that time, TWENTY flights a day were coming into London airports from that region with ZERO entry checks at UK airports.
Similarly...
Hmgov was caught like a rabbit in the headlights in March/April 2020. No hindsight needed. You only have to look at the main coronavirus thread from that period to see way more general common sense being shown by yer NSC man in the street than by hmgov in areas such as closing the borders...