Looking at the deaths figures for ENGLAND now. They really are absolutely miniscule now. Yesterday there were just TWO deaths. And the current daily average is just 21. Week on week the number of deaths is decreasing. By sometime during the first week of May, I'm fully expecting that to be down to just about into the single digits figures. With these sorts of stats, it really is absolutely ridiculous and bonkers that these nuisance hassly damaging social distancing and face mask wearing restrictions are still being kept for what is intended to be another 2 months. Just what an earth is the point now in these restrictions continuing any longer??!! I think it's certainly not being unreasonable nor unrealistic at the very least for both of the final stages of the roadmap easing of lockdown/restrictions to be brought forward by either two or one weeks each. Even if each of those stages were brought forward by one week, that would mean the 7th June for the lockdown to be completely eased and all restrictions scrapped. That would be some improvement on having to wait untill 21st June. This is not atall unreasonable nor unrealistic! But I think Johnson probably STILL won't budge on this, and if challenged on this he'll probably say something like "Well the reason for the 5 week gap between the stages is to give us 4 weeks to look at the data, and to give businesses one week's notice to allow them to reopen.". They don't need 4 weeks to look at the data, they can clearly see the hospital numbers and stats are absolutely tumbling far faster than they expected!
Johnson recently said some nonsense that "A third wave will wash upon these shores within 3 weeks.". Well that was over a month ago now! He got that wrong! There will be no devastating third wave! Even if cases do rise over the coming months, the link between cases leading to a surge in hospital admissions and deaths has been broken! Those days are long gone!
A Downing Street News Conference today at 5 with Johnson! I have a feeling he will be joined (yet) again by Whitty and Vallance, who will both probably have something negative to say as usual!
Having said that though, I am very very confident that come 21st June the lockdown and all restrictions will be completely scrapped. And about time too! I really can't see how they could justify delaying and dragging this on past that date.