Covid was removed from the High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) list on the 19th March in the UK. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Avian influenza A H7N9 and H5N1 are still on the list. We didn't lock down for those deseases so why did we lockdown for Covid-19?

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There were four recorded cases of SARS infection in the UK. There seem to have been no confirmed cases of human infection by H7N9 and H5N1 in the UK. We probably won't lock-down for pathogens that show infection counts between 0 and 4. COVID-19 has infected somewhere north of a million people in the UK. We probably would lock-down for that.

That's just a guess - I'm not a doctor.