I've noticed more cars along my road. It's a through route in a dozy suburb. It's never exactly busy, and on the school run it's irriating if I have to wait for 5 or 6 cars to pass. Now there is a car passing by every minute or two which is more than the first couple of weeks.
The lure of family groups bimbling around the neighbourhood incredibly slowly seems to have worn off. I don't know whether they've gone elsewhere or just CBA. I don't miss them. They were the ones that were a PITA to pass with a safe distance. The people still out are better at social distancing and seem a bit more purposeful. There are still families getting out, but they seem to have more sense, and it's more families with children rather than the older families with adult children. Maybe people are more confident to do their own thing.
I tried hard with the outdoor exercise once thing in the first couple of weeks, but strolling around with the children is not exercise to my body and I was finding it inadequate and frustrating. As it wasn't illegal I quickly justified to myself that it was fine to head off and run and not have to sacrifice being out with the children. In my area with access to countryside, that's minimal risk to anyone else. It was good to see the clarification that such actions can be reasonable.
I think there's been a social realisation that it's not a few weeks of lockdown, get over the peak and solve the virus and back to normal after Easter. I was always on the side of this being a longer term issue and social restrictions needing to be sustainable for months not a few weeks. If we liken this to the summer holidays, week 5 is when people get twitchy and start thinking about a return to school.
The media has got twitchy this week too. They have a lot of space to fill at a critical time with not much to report, because organising testing, PPE and vaccines just doesn't conveniently work at that pace, and there's not much else going on in the world. Deaths are inching down in the way the experts anticipated, but it's not that dramatic for celebration. An exit stategy has to be carefully planned and cautious. If you announced that schools are back on the 1st June, people would start letting their children interact with friends because they'll be doing it soon anyway, and that would undermine the measures in place and affect the timings of the curve prematurely. The measures need to be appropriately timed and phased in, both for virus control and damage limitation of the economy.
I've realised this week that as long as I just take each day as it comes that life feels quite "normal" in a SAHM in the summer holidays kind of way. It's got a bit normal having DH around, and we have a sort of routine around our attempts at schooling. I'm not tempted to go very far as there still aren't many options avaliable. Family is too far to have a sneaky visit to. I could drive off somewhere different for a run (especially somewhere flat particilarly for my beleagured calves) but I've not really found the mojo to do it.
Clearly from reading MN, those that were expecting a short, sharp lockdown are disappointed and now getting twitchy at their self-imposed virtuous incarceration. There's been a lot less "PEOPLE WILL DIE!!!" about people walking through an empty field or touching a gate, although there was a mild furore over sitting on a bench and eating crisps and its compatability with exercise (personally, salt and vinegar crisps and Coke at mile 7 is like nectar and ambrosia to refuel for a big hill to home 
) Those following self imposed additional restrictions and berating everyone else for not abiding by them seem to have either shut up realising that no one appreciates them or just got fed up and unclenched a bit because it was pointless anyway. (Gosh, how that reminded me of being coerced into playing with my then 4yo with invisible rules to fall foul of 
).