An "acceptable" level of deaths?

The British government's attitude to the pandemic still suggests a brutal utilitarianism

After months of telling itself that the pandemic was all but over in the UK, Britain is now succumbing to incipient hysteria.

The statistics are indeed alarming. Today 49,139 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded, up 14.9 per cent from last week, and 179 Covid deaths, up 31.6 per cent. On October 16, there were 869 Covid hospitalisations, up 15.3 per cent …