I also think this thread demonstrates a fear of normal life, but also that people don’t understand why we are in lock down, it’s to manage the nhs capacity, not to wait until the virus is gone.
Keeping school closed till the autumn and the start of the flu season would be disastrous. The virus won’t have gone. We would get a double whammy, plus folks wouldn’t be able to get their flu vaccine so those death numbers would be huge, then in addition a society on lock down for months and months would not recover in our life time. Our children’s futures would be dismal. And yes they would have futures, because it is very benign disease in the overwhelming majority of children.
By may 11 we will have been in lock down for nearly two months. We need to be able to live with corona and manage it. Not lock down in our homes for up to a year, which is what would happen if this went through the autumn winter.
People need to remember the cost of shutting down a society, the deaths that come with economic hardship and social isolation. The future for our children. The impacts of not trying to manage this through the summer, but waiting until flu season then doing it. And the huge amount of damage that will be done.
Yes it’s scarey, but not as scarey as what will happen if we don’t manage to start to get back to normal and manage this disease correctly