They won't release restrictions because the virus still exists and we are basically back where we ere in February.
We're now stuck like this until the Government decides to accept the casualties from the virus.
Exactly, that's the whole problem with the suppression strategy - it isn't much of a strategy at all, just a paniced response to delay the inevitable. Unfortunately in this case the costs of the delay are almost incalculably awful. I'm not sure why everyone didn't realise this at the start.
I think there is one small comfort and that is that I think the government has been incredibly lucky in that it would increasingly appear we are approaching herd immunity - as it appears it will happen at a level much lower than would have been originally expected. So we're not quite back where we starting in February, in my opinion.
But either we are, or we're not. Either way we need to learn what King Canute knew, and let nature do what it will do, as we should have done to start with. However, instead of that, we seem determined to carry on in a nether-world where we fear a 'second wave', forever, whether it may happen or not. I don't see that improving much until next Spring, unfortunately.