Will more doctors speak out against the lockdown?

Over the last few months, I have watched events with growing incredulity. So much ‘normality’ has been lost, and even when measures have been eased recently, it has always been with strings attached. This makes it feel like more restrictions have appeared; at the height of the epidemic, we were still able to get on a bus or train with our faces uncovered. Not any more. Let’s be clear: the risk from coronavirus is still not zero. It cannot be for any infection. But does that risk justify the measures still in place? 

While the government appears to have dropped its strategy of talking about ‘following the science’, it is clear that they are still broadly following the particular scientific voices they care to listen to. But ‘following the science’ was always a misleading phrase for a simple reason: not all scientists (or doctors) think the same. As the lockdown continues, this is only becoming clearer.