Lockdown’s long, lasting legacy

THERE is a grim inevitability to the rise in normally common infections causing serious illness or death as a result of lowered immunity caused by lockdown. Without Covid, six children would never have died from the surge in Strep A bacteria. At a much more minor level, many normally indestructible people I know have been hit by viruses. I still don’t feel 100 per cent after getting a chest infection at the beginning of November. Yet more proof why we should never have succumbed to lockdown – and must never do so again.