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Lockdown is over – Spiked

And yet the government and the media perpetuate the fiction that lockdown is still in place.

With lockdown at an effective end, this foolish belief will only do us damage. The UK’s GDP is estimated to have fallen by two per cent in the first quarter of 2020. Other factors are inevitably at play, but the first quarter only includes the first week of lockdown. What effect will the past seven weeks of lockdown have on the economy in the second quarter?

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/02/lockdown-is-over/