I am glad to see the tide is turning somewhat from the mania of "you are a granny killer if you buy milk" mindset that it was earlier this year, when the populace succumbed to Saint Boris's brainwashing; but there are still plenty of lockdown zealots around. The legacy of lockdown is going to be MUCH greater than the legacy of the virus.
Lockdown for fun?
Yes. He keeps saying "I don't want a lockdown": double bluff. Saint Boris has too much pride to admit "lockdown was an extremely expensive mistake which isn't solving anything", so he's pretending it is having the right effect, so he can say he was right all along, and his merry men are inventing whatever figures they can to back it up. And yes, it's obvious that numbers are being invented. A basic example is the way positive results (which may be false) are consistently referred to as "cases".
We were told in March it was for 2 weeks.
Then it was "we can turn this around in twelve weeks".
Then it was "normalish by Christmas".
Then it was "six months of restrictions yet" (September).
What will it be next March?
"Pleeeeeeeeeease, I'm begging your patience for just another twelve months, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease."
This is why many of us are simply not buying the "it won't be forever" message, whether it's from Saint Boris, or the lockdown zealots of Mumsnet. This is why many of us do not see an end in sight, so we want to think "fuck the roolz", which look as if they were chosen by picking things out of a hat. The government have proved, time and time again, that they don't have a clue. They are putting all their energy into appearing to do the right thing, and pitting groups of the public against each other, to deflect attention from themselves. Some of the public are seeing through this.
It's time that the clowns in Whitehall threw their hands up, admit they got it wrong about lockdown being the answer, admit that it has caused massive irreversible damage, work out how to live alongside the virus (protect the vulnerable and allow the rest to carry on as normal). Of course, they're not going to do that: they're going to keep muddling through, praying that numbers eventually go down, so they can say "we cured Covid... but we're still imposing massive restrictions on you, just in case".
We have a much bigger problem than the virus; and that is that large sections of the public are blindly believing all the shit the government and the media throws at them. The sooner people realise this, the better.