Another thing missing from @Peston’s piece on this yesterday: a relaxation of restrictions would lead to further spikes in healthcare usage (esp ICUs) when we’ve not even reached our first peak yet. Ie likely more deaths - from Covid and non-Covid causes - if capacity overwhelmed https://twitter.com/jdportes/status/1248581303517302784

The discussion of the negative financial costs of the lockdown seem to be held in a vacuum - as if we can simply ease up the restrictions and the only result will be a few more sick people.

None address the unsolved ICU utilisation-capacity problem that’d -> more economic harm

This is obviously separate to the moral question of how such a move would be putting vulnerable people at greater risk, which is an entirely different set of arguments.