Let’s get back to work before Britain sinks due to this coronavirus blockade: The Sun

Hard facts mean difficult decisions. In the week before Easter, 16,387 people died from all causes in England and Wales.

This was 6,082 more than the five-year average. Half of those 6,082 deaths are attributed to the coronavirus.

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We don’t know how the other half died, although some may have lost the life-saving health care due to the pandemic.

What we do know is that this horrible virus is killing the economy.

The Office of Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) warns that a three-month shutdown will reduce growth by more than a third, raise unemployment by two million and increase loans by 500%.

Lockdown has destroyed Britain’s “job miracle”, paid for a fragile “Brexit rebound” and has unleashed what could be the worst depression in living memory.

“It is important for people to know that there will be difficulties in the future,” said Foreign Minister Rishi Sunak, an under-declaration if there ever was one.

On your hour-long daily exercise break, you can watch the tragedy unfold.

Once-thriving restaurants and bars, busy offices and shops, and key construction sites are locked and bolted.

Behind every door is a personal and financial tragedy.

Despite the torrent of taxpayers’ cash unleashed by Mr. Sunak, many will never reopen. Some are already bust. Life will never be the same again.

The Treasury is piling up billions to pay full-time workers, help self-employed workers, and offer Universal Credit to the large number of people on the run.

We are accumulating downloads on our already huge national debt. For many companies and individuals, this is a devastating blow from which they can never recover, financially or mentally.

Lives lost to delayed emergency care, alcoholism, drugs, and domestic abuse have skyrocketed.

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Along with deaths from other causes, mainly poverty and despair, they could worsen the price of the virus.

The life chances of some children will be destroyed by a long break from school or, worse still, by being locked up with violent family members.

Those who keep their jobs may be forced to make severe pay cuts. The costs will spill through the generations.

Not everyone is suffering.

Public sector jobs and pensions are safe, for now.

Some with savings, decent homes, and jobs they can do from home may be enjoying Easter with their families by their side.

Bread winners forced to stay instead of eating out or flying abroad will have extra money in their pockets at the end of the month. And some will have taken advantage of Rishi Sunak’s 80 percent pay offer to put their feet up at the taxpayer’s expense.

But it all adds up to a crimson outcome that our children and grandchildren will have to face for decades to come. Some of them will be paid in blood.

Without cash from tax revenue, how do we deliver on Sunak’s promise to fund “whatever it takes” our wonderful NHS and its new and expensive life-saving treatments?

Can we afford a generous welfare state from the cradle to the grave, good schools or the promised infrastructure that links North and South with better roads and railways?

One day, a vaccine will end this miserable pandemic. But what will be left and at what cost?

Downing Street, without its most important figure at the helm, must find a way to save Britain from destitution without being blamed for “putting money before life.”

It is a challenge that only a crazy Corbynite would wish for his worst enemy.

But to govern is to choose.

And despite having escaped from his own near-death experience, it is impossible to see it happen without Boris Johnson’s permission.

The Prime Minister knows there will be questions to answer once this is all over.

They are already getting thick and fast: testing, NHS capability, and protective gear for NHS personnel.

These must be resolved quickly, literally at any cost.

Then we will need an investigation into the failure of the so-called “experts” to see this coming.

We want a detailed explanation of Public Health England’s quango that focused costly resources on obesity and diversity, rather than the pandemic that struck four years ago.

Why, for example, were they so slow to allow non-NHS specialists to enter the accelerated battle against Covid-19?

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Labor will blame conservatives, but all of these pandemic risks were pointed out since 2005 when Labor was in power.

Boris, who became prime minister just nine months ago, was busy with other matters until his landslide in December.

There are some “green sprouts”, to quote one of our medical experts.

The NHS now has free capacity. There is no longer a risk of being overwhelmed.

This was one of the key reasons for draconian repression: avoiding an unmanageable “spike” in crisis admissions.

That risk has decreased. Leave room for back to work and school.

The sooner it starts, the sooner we’ll see the OBR’s “fast recovery” forecast.

The number of coronavirus deaths in the UK rises to 12,107 after 778 more patients, including 58 who were healthy, die of fatal disease