I've started sitting on park benches for long periods of time, in a pathetic sort of protest. I keep hoping to get stopped by the police so I can be fined and taken to court, but there's no police presence at all. I don't want to actively endanger people's lives, I just want to register disagreement with the rules and the way they're being imposed.
And before anyone starts on how fucking stupid / heartless etc can I be, I have thought long and hard about this, and I don't think that sitting on park benches will kill people. I also think that a high number of deaths (given that very few children, who are non-consenting, die) and a relatively non-functional NHS is a reasonable price to pay for protecting the most basic things in society. A major strand of pro-lockdown thinking (perhaps best exemplified by Pier Morgan's absurd ad hominem argument last week with Jonathan Sumption, 'and what if the 98 year old was Captain Tom?') is obsessed with the appearance of virtuousness. It's a bit like Victorian piety, though. Riven with self-serving hypocrisy, and careless about the many undeserving and seriously underprivileged people whose lives are being ruined more than, say, mine or Piers Morgan's is.
The NHS postdates universal education and in my opinion is less important. In fact, if the NHS is going to become an albatross around the neck of an ageing population unable or unwilling to make the huge sacrifices that a world-class healthcare system would actually necessitate, I would rather it was scrapped. (In most countries, the best healthcare modern medicine can provide is a luxury available only to the very rich. I think that's reasonable.)
Saving an 80+ year old from a novel virus is really hard. No hospital in the world was doing a good job of that last spring. We can and should try to do the best we can, but I don't think the best we can means anything we can throw after the same sunk cause. None of it has really worked. We're halfway to Neil Ferguson's worst case scenario, in terms of Covid deaths, and excess deaths from other causes, combined with the Covid deaths to come, make it hard to see what this wretched year has achieved.
As for the NHS being overwhelmed. It has been, all year, for normal purposes. I haven't been able to get an appointment in person with a doctor for over 12 months.
It's very possible that we should have locked down and closed the borders at the first possible indication of an out-of-control virus, last Jan/Feb. But we didn't. It's all been too much, too late.