noextreme our friends in Europe were hit with the virus a good ten days before us, so it stands to reason they will be ahead when it comes to reopening up.
No one can possibly say at this stage how this play out, we are seemingly short on history lessons. The second wave will almost certainly be worse than the first. Look at the graphs for the Spanish flu and you can see that the following waves are more deadly. So if we have any hope at all of having the resources to deal with the winter wave, then we best get the economy restarted.
Those that need to shield etc should continue, of course, the rest of us need to get back into the driving seat.
It is also deeply unhelpful comparing tiny little countries like Ireland with a population of 4 million (a large city in real terms) to the 66.6 million in the UK. You simply can not compare them - and we have over double their population just in bloody London ffs.
I am really proud of this country, the way we pulled together, the sterling job of the NHS, the carers, the supermarkets have been pretty amazing and the production has continued, and the government have done their level best in dire circumstances. So please do stop moaning and putting everyone down. In RL people have pulled together everywhere. Lets talk about that for a change!