Extract from the article by Professor Angus Dalgleish,
If Omicron unfolds as expected, then a further crackdown is just empty gesture politics, designed to give the illusion of protection while devastating businesses and upending Christmas plans for millions.
And in fact it would be worse than meaningless: it would be counter-productive. Lockdown directly undermines the fight against the virus by preventing the spread of naturally acquired Covid immunity in the population.
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