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It’s not just the small stations. Nation Broadcasting, who have some fairly sizeable FM licences across the country have also done away with studios, and have all presenters broadcasting from home.

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Swine flu was far less contagious and deadly than Covid, and there wasn’t the likelihood of the NHS becoming totally overwhelmed, so there wasn’t a need for a lockdown then. We didn’t just have lockdowns in Covid because we somehow liked the idea of them more than we did eleven years beforehand.

Was there lock downs in 1918 for the Spanish Flu? What about the Hong Kong Flu of 1968 or the Russian Flu of 1977? I think lock down for the Covid pandemic was the first full lock down, as the world changed into an online world, which could mean work done online, and people had a slightly better time staying indoors, with all the online entertainment etc available. 

Just an opinion - and I know I have veered off course here, sorry - I will go back on course about BBC Radio 2 now, I promise.

There were maritime quarantines, school closures, banning of mass gatherings, theatre and church closures for the Spanish Flu in some areas. The reason measures weren't undertaken in the UK was because there was a World War on at the time. News of it was supressed in many countries to keep up morale - the name "Spanish flu" came about because Spain reported on the flu, and people wrongly assumed that was where it must have originated.

In reference to your earlier post, Mexico instituted a lockdown for Swine Flu in 2009.