I don’t follow.
There are two separate points here:
As discussed ad nauseam above, the chances of healthy adults dying of this virus are negligible. For people who aren’t in a high risk group, fearing this virus is irrational, just as fearing the flu virus would be.
Secondly, the government is currently paying 8m+ peoples’ wages (or at least a proportion of them). That is completely unsustainable and it will come to an end. Soon. At that point, those people *will* have to return to work, or face losing their jobs - and rightly so. That’s reality.
They can choose to resign of course. But that isn’t much of a choice if they have rent or a mortgage to service.
You started out by comparing car crashes to COVID-19 (post #1593).
I carried out a quick statistical comparison (after arguing that we don't actually know the true COVID-19 death rate) (post #1608).
You then said that you were specifically referring to "a healthy working age person with no underlying conditions" (post #1616). We know such people are less likely to die of COVID-19, but you have not provided any numbers. I've explained in post #1608 why, even if the numbers exist, they should be treated with caution. Also, in order to provide a proper statistical comparision (which you are doing), you will need to compare to road traffic accident data for "healthy working age [people] with no underlying conditions".
That is why I said that you are making comparisons that are untrue or unproveable.
What are you basing it being too early on...
The actions of other countries (specifically Denmark and New Zealand) who locked down quickly, suppressed the virus, and can now re-open with far fewer risks.
...and what will be different in a month's time?
Again, from our trajectory as compared to other country's. We have had ~1 week of an increase in death rates of under 1%. Other countries started to lift restrictions when this trend was seen over a fortnight. It has been 3 weeks since restrictions were first lifted for us. Therefore, assuming that our death rate stays the same or declines, we will be in the same position in ~1 week as other countries were when they lifted their restrictions.
We're not approaching a point of low deaths, we're at it.
Where do you get that from?
Deaths have been reducing on am exponential trajectory for two months. The decline being exponential suggests the number will take longer and longer to approach zero. It's quite possible that statistically there will appear to be no change in a months time when deaths are used as the headline figure. That's to be expected given what we've seen so far, but sadly will also be used by lockdown proponents as evidence that "we must keep going" - to do what exactly, though?
The answers given above should make this paragraph redundant. I'm happy to clarify why.
We're at the point where social distancing has played its role, if it had one at all. We'll never know for sure, we'll only be able to make retrospective comparisons and theories. We can't change what has been done, right or wrong, but we can acknowledge we have reached the time when we must change approach.
And this is meaningless.