[satysin]

That is a truly worrying reply to read but on first read appears to make a lot of sense.

I have spent the last few minutes searching for some kind of government response to this and all I can find is basically along the lines of "lift lockdown, reopen and things will go back to how they were, these numbers are just temporary".

Is this really the official government position on the matter? Seems they are saying re-open with a few new measures in place to encourage distancing and it will all be fine??

That really does not make much sense to me.

[SpicyLemonZest]

I guess I'm not sure what government position you were expecting. There's no way to write a complete recovery timeline at this point, when we don't even know what the pandemic is going to look like in a few months. Lifting lockdowns will solve the "people aren't legally allowed to work" problem, which is surely the biggest obstacle to people working. Then we'll solve other problems as they arise.

If you're reading the government plan as a claim that July will look just like January, I don't think that's what anyone expects.

[tonyedgecombe]

We are staring to make some tentative steps in the UK, schools are due to open soon. The problem is teachers and their unions are resisting this. I suspect it is going to be a lot harder than people think to get things moving again.

This is why I've thought all along the arguments about lockdowns and their economic damage are a bit of a red herring. My local cafe was emptying before they were told to shut down, I expect that was the case everywhere.