The worst thing about the coronavirus crisis is that we ignored our magic window into the future.

Italy is 14 days ahead of us on the curve. By the time we locked down, 6,077 people had died there.

In South Korea, extreme lockdown and mass testing kept deaths to 150 in a month.

There are other examples too. We had so many opportunities to see what was working and what wasn't, and to adapt accordingly.

But instead, the UK Government buried its head in the sand and decided it would zig when the rest of the world zagged. Our lockdown came very late.

Even today, when it can feel like the police are breathing down our necks, and the parks are out of bounds, our restrictions are far less restrictive - and our exceptions far more plentiful - than in most other countries undergoing lockdown.

What we have here in the UK is LINO: Lockdown In Name Only.

Yes, the measures in place are *much* better than if everyone was going about life as normal.

But they fall far short of a full lockdown. Literally millions of not-essential-in-an-emergency workers are still at work.

Why?
- Employers refuse to let them work from home
- Their work can't be done from home, and Government hasn't ordered them to stop
- Non-essential ecommerce continues

People need to keep working, because they have no other income source. But the Government could change that.

Some other countries have gone much further than the UK by ordering factories shut, for instance. And the state has stepped up much sooner and much more comprehensively to give a basic level of support to ALL those who've lost their livelihoods. But not here. Oh, no. Not here.