No. There's no point waiting until the horse has bolted before shutting the stable door.
(1) The NHS in parts of England (especially the North) is rammed and cancelling routine stuff again. Too many Covid patients = not much else can get done because of the risk of contracting Covid in hospital.
(2) 100,000 less tests were done last week compared to the week before. Funnily enough if you do less tests, you get less positives (who'd have thunk it?).
(3) If we'd locked down sooner like Wales, we could have locked down for a shorter length of time (like Wales) and this shorter lock down would have been better for the economy. We've left it pretty late this time.
(4) France, Spain, Germany etc all seemed to have a plateau in their rate for a few days before it continued increasing exponentially, that might happen here it's too early to say.
Our lockdown end date seems to coincide with the projected rollout of the Covid vaccine for the over 85s. If less people catch it who are risk of needing hospitalisation, we can go back to normal quicker.