Devi Sridhar: The UK needs a zero-Covid strategy to prevent endless lockdowns - To avoid restrictions next winter, the UK must seek to eliminate the virus, not merely suppress it, argues the Edinburgh professor of global public health.

First we should close our borders. Goods that come in we have everyone stay on the boat and a different crew unloads the cargo and drives away so the possibly infected boatsmen don't bring the disease in again.

Use this lockdown we've got now just do martial law for 2 months the hardest lockdown ever instead of this one where guys can stand in front of policemen on trains without a mask and the policemen's just on his phone.

Give government bailouts to Hotels and use them for self isolation cos there's no point people self isolating at home when they go make themselves dinner they're gonna spread it to all the people going out, key workers or people not interested.

£1000 payment to everyone who takes vaccine so everyone grumbling has an incentive to take it and we have less "big government forcing us to do things" talk.

Then from that point it becomes a question of finding who's infected and sticking them up in hotels until everything is done.

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