@ Clark
“But the rise is still slower than it would be without restrictions at all”.
A wild assumption as it assumes targeting the healthy parts of society and economy saves rather than costs lives. Crashing the economy to ‘solve’ the crisis, becomes the crisis, and those supporting this approach are, whether innocently or on purpose, are making the situation worse, and then blaming the government for the crisis, that you (and deep state) support. No wonder Boris has gone into hiding.
And then asking vulnerable people to “self-isolate” (deemed a punishment in prison) rather than target extra funding to help them live as normally as possible, for example by boosting care worker wages, is also counter-productive, as is frightening people and workers to restrict their activities and stay at home due to an inflated fear catching the virus will kill them.