Time to end lockdown, and save lives

The Hereford Times has done an excellent job of updating readers in real time on the fatalities in the county due to Covid-19. We now need this to be contextualised with details of the numbers of excess deaths arising as a consequence of the lockdown: deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer as a result of the ejection of patients from hospitals and the denial of healthcare to anyone other than sufferers of the coronavirus; the suicides, deaths from domestic violence, alcoholism, and other