To prevent a chaotic end to lockdown, the public should be told the true risks | Simon Jenkins

Give us the facts. The government scared British people into their homes – now it must reassure them back out

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Just tell the truth. If the government is to get the country out of the mess of lockdown, it must take people into its confidence. It scared us into it, and must now reassure us out of it. 

This week children are returning to school in England, on the basis that the risk to them and their families from Covid-19 is “minuscule”. Wha...