Of course it is, but if you take the people out of circulation and provide enough time to vaccinate, then you lessen the impact on reopening. And agree with armchairclubber too, releasing the elderly into care homes, was incompetent at least, deliberately deadly at worst.
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What? no, we needed to lock down earlier, exactly what I was saying at the time, but then again working for a private health company, we weren't to be listened to by this shambles of a government. Early lockdown gives you a chance to vaccinate more during lockdown. Mortality across the world is...
How?? It gives you more time to vaccinate....We locked down too late (and possibly opened up too early), the stats the world over have proven that without doubt giving us one of the worst mortality rates....