Exactly. We have huge debts and our "economy" runs on the assumption that, if very little goes wrong, we might be able to stay afloat.

The time for creating choice on the cornonavirus response was during the last 20 years. They chose rampant financialisation, leveraging future income.

The UK has no energy security. No food security. I feel the corner we have painted ourselves into makes a prolonged shutdown far, far harder.