To turn this on the head, when are those people who are worried about a second wave going to feel safe ?.With the notable exception of Iran, name me one country that has experienced a sustained second wave ?. Yes there have been isolated incidents of small clusters of new infections, for example around that mine in Poland and the nightclub area of Seoul, but such instances are few and far between.Spain's release from the lockdown is accelerating, with over half of the population able to go to bars, nightclubs and casinos (unlike here). More and more countries are opening their borders, and the indications are that even those who are still (understandably) preventing Brits from going there will loosen such restrictions in the coming weeks.The death rate, although tragically high, is dropping at a significant, consistent rate (when one takes into account the rolling 7 day average and not daily fluctuations. Inevitably some people who have been infected and are struggling to overcome it will die, that's a sad but simple reality, but the stats from countries like Italy and Spain suggest that both existing patients and new patients who are critically ill makes up only 1% of the active cases.There's always going to be a minority of people who are overly cautious by nature, in the same way there are those who are going to be cavalier. Someone in all of that there's a middle ground, and whilst I'm pretty scathing of the UK government and it's handling of the pandemic, all of the signs at the moment are that the situation is improving rapidly in the UK, and the experience of the vast majority of countries ahead of us (in terms of when they started suffering the pandemic) is also very encouraging.In the same way that the cautious people can label people as being selfish and irresponsible for believing that, unless there's a considerable deterioration, the release from lockdown and the restoration of normality should escalate in the coming weeks, the cavalier people will say that it's unfair that their lives should be dictated by an overly-cautious minority who are probably benefiting from the lockdown and hence have no desire to rush the return to normality.Needless to say I'm one of the latter, reflected by how I already have a flexible 1 week holiday to Las Vegas booked in late August as something of an 'escape' to myself having spent the last 3 months cooped up with family and being one of those self-employed who 'dares' to earn above £50k per annum without getting a penny of support from the government (unlike the supposed 95% of self-employed who have pocketed a £14k handout from the government whilst still being able to work).
Adam Beamish ● 1886d