Youcannotbeserious I was thinking about the difference between Doris' and Nippy's coms last night. I can't stand either of them. IMO the difference in the ways they've handled the pandemic is negligible but I realised very belatedly for the first time last night that Doris and co are the only ones who refer to actual data in briefings. 
Usually from Public Health England, who are widely praised by the scientists and amateur data modellers I follow on Twitter for the quality of their data.
Is there a Scottish equivalent? I think not?? Is this why Nippy doesn't show us actual figures? Or one of the reasons? Control freakery?
FWIW, until as recently as about a week ago, the scientists I follow on Twitter were mainly in agreement that the number of hospitalisations could go either way. Very lately they seem to be in agreement that a short delay is probably best. With the caveat that if a surge in cases is postponed too long into the autumn at the start of the winter illness season that would be worse for the health service.
But to my mind, a return to normal means, among other things, not having to self isolate if you're deemed to be a close contact of a case. And not having to test if you have slight symptoms that might be covid. If I'm right, there's been no mention of that? I'm not advocating that people wantonly spread covid around, but we don't have hugely disruptive, stressful rules about close contacts of other infectious viruses.
DS, (as previously mentioned) was extremely lucky, (like Michael Gove ) to be randomly selected for the daily testing to permit attendance at work/education and other 'essential' purposes, with the intention that the self isolation period can be reduced (if the data shows that the incubation period is usually shorter than 10 days). But even if they decide that quarantining for a shorter time is effective it's still hugely disruptive.