In the list of stupid and criminal things our government have done, this might just be the most stupid.
There will be no second wave. There is no more risk (assuming general OK health) to anyone under 65 than there normally is in every day life. That so many people have been brainwashed by politicians, a hysterical media and atrocious scientific models is a tragedy that is killing tens of thousands of people through missed cancer scans, heart disease, suicide, domestic violence and poverty.
The virus has been circulating since at least November 2019. As soon as it originated, it would have been in London a week or so later. It's an infecitous disease, London is a global travel hub, and there are lots of Chinese students here. It can't not have been.
We can see this in the data. There was a huge spike in "flu" hospitalisations at the end of November (10x the previous year) which resulted in a spike of deaths at the end of 2019. This was as the virus worked its way through the generally younger, healthier working population.
As it continued to spread silently, it didn't have much of an impact, simply because it's a very targeted disease. It's incredibly dangerous to elderly people with existing conditions. To everyone else the risk is minuscule. All we had to do was stop it getting into care homes.
Enter the scientists with their make believe model world. Enter the media with scenes of apocalypse from Italy (ignoring the fact the Italians had done exactly the opposite of what was needed - protect the elderly). The politicians panicked, and had to be seen to "do" something.
Unfortunately, what they did was criminal. The model - already discredited due to previous predictions wrong by orders of magnitude - predicted the NHS would be overwhelmed. Capacity was needed. SO THEY SENT INFECTED PEOPLE INTO CARE HOMES. That's corporate manslaughter and the scientists and politicians responsible belong in jail. That's why so many people died.
The NHS has been working at well under normal capacity. That's because the model was rubbish.
The lockdown started after the virus had passed it peak. It made no difference. All it's done is cause extra deaths to those too scared to seek medical treatment (cancer referals down by 70%, A&E attendance down by 50%) and made millions unemployed, though most of them don't realise it yet due to being paid to have a long holiday due to government subsidies.
My golf club is fortunate. We will survive. Many others won't. And small businesses up and down the land will go bust. Kids losing out on education that will severely hamper their life chances.
We now have a public that have been scared of their shadow due to a bogeyman that the vast majority wouldn't even know they've had it, for it is so mild. Protect the elderly and the vulnerable. That's all we had to do. Look at countries with low death rates. They kept it out of care homes. Same in the US - states that kept it out of care homes have low death rates (hello Mr Cuomo, you belong in jail too).
I would jump on a plane tomorrow if I could to play golf anywhere. I am not scared. I hugely resent my freedom being taken from me. It's disgusting.