>> keeping on our general isolation will continue for at least a few weeks
You are having a laugh.
Since the 10th of March 300k people in the UK have officially had COVID-19. 120 days ish - so about 2,500 people per day - and that was about what the health system could comfortably cope with long term..
There are 65m people in the UK and it is reckoned that whilst it is not binary, 70% infection is required for effective herd immunity - so 45m people need to catch it.
45 million people at 2,500 people per day is 18,000 days - or about 50 years.
There is no "second wave", it's just one very long one. We cannot avoid the virus. It's not going away. There is no "beating" of COVID-19.
COVID-19 is now a way of life.
The Government cannot stop people being infected, it can only slow it down to a level that the NHS can cope with. And arguably it should *not* be slowed down more than that.
Perhaps there will be a vaccine at some point, though even then whether or not it will be permanent immunity is an open question.
Gradually the fatality rate will drop over time, as the most vulnerable die, from COVID-19 or something else, and gradually some level of immunity will build up.
But isolating for a few weeks? Good luck with that.
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