Britain’s second wave of Covid-19 started in early September 2020. In response, the UK went into its second national lockdown on 5th November 2020. By that time, infections in Britain had climbed to about 330 per million people – the blue arrow on the graph below indicates where the UK was in the infection cycle at that point.
Locking down in early November, however, proved to be too late to prevent the unfolding catastrophe of December 2020 and January 2021.
“If you are going in, go in early and go in hard.” Isn’t that the lesson we have learned from this pandemic?
The red arrows show infections at about 90 people per million on 2nd October 2020 and on 10th June 2021.
The blue arrow shows infections at 332ppm when the UK locked down on 5th November 2020 – it was THREE WEEKS TOO LATE to squash the sombrero.
