The Heavy Cost of Lockdown

Missed cancer screening appointments

Cancellation to face-to-face GP consultations

Increases in domestic abuse

Increases in high risk alcohol consumption

Increases in divisions between people

Vastly extended NHS waiting lists for tests and treatments

A rise in mental health issues

Drastic interruptions to the entire education system with probable long term harms to intellectual health

Astronomical borrowing

Economic damage

£37bn (UK spend) on Test & Trace

Isolation of loved ones in Care Homes

Limits on funeral attendees

Church doors closed in the first in time in 800 years

Removal of rights to gather and protest

Bans on travel