What a ridiculous man Chris Whitty is. He now compares his efforts to those of campaigners for seat belts in cars and for prohibition of child labour in chimney sweeping, and speculates that future historians will reach a favourable judgment on those efforts. Let's examine.

Try a few, Janet and John diagnostic questions (yes/no answers suffice):
Did the introduction of seat belts seriously disrupt the normal functioning of motor cars?
Did the prohibition of child sweeps seriously disrupt the lives of millions of children?

Did the prohibition of child labour cause large numbers of chimney sweeps to go out of business?
Did Lockdown seriously disrupt the normal functioning of the economy?
Did it seriously disrupt the lives of millions of children?
Did it cause large numbers of businesses to close?

As for the judgment of future historians, my bet is that it will go to medics like Andreas Tegnell and our own Carl Heneghan & Karol Sikora, who took a much wider view of public health (& indeed human wellbeing more generally), not to those obsessed with Covid-19 uber alles.