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I'm not dictating anything. The data points do support my argument (I was referring to both current numbers, and drawing comparisons with prior numbers, not one or the other). Those are not my ranges. I asked you to provide what seem to me (and others) to be the most valid data points, and you...

Well, I disagree. And I wouldn't be advocating another lockdown, because we know a lot more about how the virus operates now and, in retrospect, even the earlier lockdown went too far. A circuit breaker is, as its name implies, a punctual attempt to limit the spread of the virus. All it will...

I'm advocating a circuit breaker -- which is the title of this thread, and somewhat different from a lockdown, and is also what SAGE is recommending. And there's a really easy answer to the question you pose: exactly the same mechanism that paid for the lockdown, ie increase government debt.

You're changing the subject. You claimed that the data didn't support a circuit breaker. This is something that I and other posters picked up on. I provided you the opportunity to consider three data points. If you wanted to, you could even compare them with points in the past such as, for...

And hospitalisations have increased by one-third from last week to next week.

From what I can gather, The Mail and The Express have departed company with the former against further or prolonging restrictions, and the latter for them.

It's not about stopping healthy people from working; it's about stopping sending healthy people to work such that they get unhealthy, and continue to spread the virus. Short of a vaccine (on which there are encouraging signs), the only way to stop its virulent spread is to curtail human contact...

Have you seen: -- the number of cases -- the number of hospitalisations -- the steady, but lagging, rate in the number of deaths?