To be honest with you, from several personal experiences with this thing both on myself and with relatives who are in the 1% and contracted it, alongside questionable records of causes of death, I am now a massive sceptic having stringently adhered to the previous lockdown to the detriment of my family's immediate mental and physical wellbeing.
The British government have already said up to 90% of tests are potentially false positive (Dominic raab said 93%), hospital beds currently used by covid sit at 1% of capacity and that includes all people who tested positive while already in hospital so even that is false data.
The South's own govt statistics website says that 7, yes 7 people under 70 without a serious health condition have died from the virus IN TOTAL in the state.
Hundreds of independent virologists, red brick university professors and other experts are speaking up as to the gross over estimations being given out and the true impact on society. We're stuck with Whitty and Ballance, the doomsday merchants leading the Brits with our counterparts on the hill following suit. Note that the govt medical advisers predicted 500,000 deaths from BSE, millions from SARS and over 65,000 from swine flu....
I know numerous heavily sick "at risk" people who have had it and didn't even know.
We've already been assured outdoor activity has minimal chance of transmission. I, for example, tested positive due to my late father being in Haematology as that cluster was announced and not a single other member of our team tested positive despite me training twice with them before we found out and isolated.... Now people are being told not to test without symptoms but isolate anyway. It's a load of absolute nonsense.
80% of deaths in the North linked to care homes and the extremely elderly. Why not put safety buffers in place for the vulnerable to help them stay protected, comfortable and the rest of the population try to reach a form of normality, albeit phased in? And I'm not saying lock them away, they are valuable people with every bit as much rights as anyone else and should be protected but locking away the 99% to protect the 1% and potentially sky rocketing child poverty, people losing jobs and houses, sports clubs going bust, depression, cancer referral delays etc etc etc is madness imo.
This virus is here and we have to live with it. Lockdowns every other month isn't gonna help.
Listen, that's my opinion (the polar opposite of what I thought in April) and I admit it won't be everyone's but I've formed it through trying to get as much information as possible and also through personal experiences (and I'm not a conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer or tin hat merchant lol)
PS - today the BBC are reporting the spread is slowing in England... Yesterday it was doomsday.