Hang 'em all

What so infuriated me at the time, when the upcoming lockdown had been announced but not yet put into effect, was that it was screamingly obvious that (a) two weeks would do nothing — we were being lied to; and (b) you can’t shut the entire country’s economy, let alone the world’s, on-and-off like a light switch: these people were out to cause massive harm, for some deeper reason known only to them.

And of course, there was more to come: