Quarterly GDP Growth

[Eric Cartman]

The speed of the vaccination procurement and delivery has in part allowed our government to make back the ground it lost at the beginning of the crisis with god awful decision making. We are broadly speaking in line with other major economies now, good news I suppose. That being said, the other way to look at 'freedom day' is that we opened up in the midst of a Nth wave and just let significant numbers of people die to make sure of this 'good news', during this time the average age of a Covid patient in hospital reduced by 10 years. So as always the government needs to take the rough with the smooth and in this case that meant some level of economic recovery vs higher death figures.

[JamesWales]

The speed of the vaccination procurement and delivery has in part allowed our government to make back the ground it lost at the beginning of the crisis with god awful decision making. We are broadly speaking in line with other major economies now, good news I suppose. That being said, the other way to look at 'freedom day' is that we opened up in the midst of a Nth wave and just let significant numbers of people die to make sure of this 'good news', during this time the average age of a Covid patient in hospital reduced by 10 years. So as always the government needs to take the rough with the smooth and in this case that meant some level of economic recovery vs higher death figures.

Absolutely. It's been a case of balancing competing factors from the start; Covid, wider health issues, mental wellbeing, the economy, education etc etc etc. Not easy