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Which is now the biggest risk for the UK? Covid-19 or the fear of Covid-19?

Have you been out to eat in a restaurant or meet friends in the pub? Have you had your hair done? Did you go through a shop door?

Which is now the biggest risk for the UK? Covid-19 or the fear of Covid-19? Let’s talk about confidence and the economy.
Have you been out to eat in a restaurant or meet friends in the pub? Have you had your hair done? Did you go through a shop door?  If the answer is no, what is stopping you? And if you have returned to work or opened your business for the first time in weeks, tell me how were the takings? 
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned that the UK is not in any old recession, but the deepest in history. So... should the govt spend more to get us out of it or show restraint?
And, should face masks be compulsory? And if the answer is yes, how would you enforce that? Perhaps you object on libertarian grounds?

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