If COVID-19 is Not a High Consequence Infectious Disease, Why Lockdown?

This is a reproduction of an article based on a tweet that originally appeared in the Daily Sceptic (then call Lockdown Sceptics) in October 2020.

Martin Neil, Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, has done a twitter thread posing an interesting question. Reprinted below.

1. On 19th March the UK 4 nations public health HCID group made a decision that COVID-19 is NOT a high consequence infectious disease (HCID):
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