TY - JOUR T1 - Herd Thinking JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 476 LP - 476 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X712661 VL - 70 IS - 699 AU - Euan Lawson Y1 - 2020/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/699/476.2.abstract N2 - The daily reporting of the COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic has been a sobering, sometimes emotional, expression of the toll on our community. A reductive perspective on the pandemic has often pitted those lives versus the economy and they have been characterised as mutually exclusive, irreconcilable enemies, locked in a grotesque battle. In recent decades, gross domestic product (GDP) is a single number that dominates our lives. This concept of the ‘economy’ has been described as ‘trying to squeeze a frog into a matchbox’.1 Imagine if we tried to encapsulate the … ER -