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The Impossible Choice
To unlock or not to unlock? The government faces a momentous choice of easing the lockdown to resurrect the economy, or keeping it in place to preserve human lives. How can they find the right balance? Are today’s politicians able to cope with a return of mass unemployment after almost 40 years? The Guardian’s health editor Sarah Boseley joins us to explore the background to one of the gravest decisions in modern British history.
“This might well mean austerity for certain high-rate taxpayers who perhaps got off more easily last time.” – Giles Wilkes
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