It's been a year, and now there are warnings that lockdown may be imposed again if there's a third wave - and then what? a fourth wave? So from being an "interim, temporary measure" this seems to be turning into the norm. A woman was on TV the other day saying that masks and social distancing will, in any event, probably be needed for the next few years!
This isn't really a life is it? It is one thing to try to prevent crowds of people milling around in close proximity to one another and quite another to say you can't meet your friends or your family - especially when there appears to be no real end in sight and warnings that, even if it is held back for a while, Covid may well return in the autumn/winter months.
And what happened to the assurance that if people were patient and compliant, once the vaccine had been widely taken up everything would be OK. Even that is changing now - because there are likely to be "variants", the vaccine doesn't offer full protection, we don't know how long it provides immunity, etc. etc.
Perhaps there should be more concentration on ensuring that people have decent, dry and warm homes to live in, decent food to eat and opportunities for fresh air and exercise so that they are more likely to be able to withstand the worse effects of any illness. Apparently £37 billion was spent on an ineffective track and trace system. That would have gone a long way to providing these essentials.