Good morning, it’s a gradually recovering Paul here, with Friday’s SCVR. Today’s report is now finished. I’m still catching up with what’s been going on, over the past couple of weeks. Rightly or wrongly, I’m increasingly coming round to the view that the actions being taken by Governments, in shutting down large parts of the economy, could well turn out to be counter-productive. Hundreds of £billions in economic activity is being killed off, with ruinously expensive compensation schemes being dreamed up. For what benefit? We’re likely to end up with millions of unemployed, many thousands of destroyed businesses, all of which might have slowed down the spread of the virus a little. Seeing police being asked to stop traffic, and accost people in parks, to enforce inconsistent amp; illogical policies on social distancing, again just strikes me of authorities feeling the need to be seen to be doing something. Meanwhile millions of people are crammed into buses amp; trains, going in to work as normal. So which is it? Are we isolating, or not? To my mind, we should be rigorously isolating anyone who is vulnerable, and everyone else should be getting on with life and trying to keep the…
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