The asymmetry of experience between the government and their advisers and the general public in terms of lockdowns of something I don’t is being factored in enough. 1/

If you’re Boris Johnson or Matt Hancock or Chris Whitty or Patrick Vallance your working life has still involved you meeting colleagues and going to places of work. Lockdown doesn’t really change that for you. 2/

That is nothing like the experience of people furloughed or people who have now being working from home for 7 months who are often now acutely isolated from wider socialisation. 3/

That lack of lived experience of lockdown on the part of the decision makers is likely leading them to significantly underestimated the impact on the lives and mental health of the general public. 4/

I really fear we’re going to look back on this in a few years and the things we think were bad decisions now won’t even be the half of it. 5/5