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COVID has not been cheap either - it has cost hundreds of billions [0]. You could fund twenty crossrails for this amount of money.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/22/a-year-of-c...

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Brexit was a choice, while the fiscal, monetary, and societal response to COVID was necessary and unavoidable.

I disagree that it was unavoidable. I said to my family in February that the UK should stop all - absolutely all - flights into the country. The cost of this would have been miniscule compared to what ended up happening.

(Not just flights - everything except essential goods including via trains, ships and lorries. Certainly all people should have been disallowed entry.)

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