So according to Sturgeon's remarks today, we may not be able to fully lift restrictions until around 2200.
I wish her luck with that one.
I don't. Once the pubs start to open south of the wall, there will be some Scots getting a little more impatient with her Nanny Policies....
Seriously though, there's been some good points made recently. The reliance by some on the magic vaccine coming along to save us ignores the realty of making successful vaccines in eliminating viruses, i.e. they almost never do. At best any successfully virus will act as a temporary, and partial barrier to the viruses spread but at the same time could start to trigger it to mutate at a greater rate.
And the same goes for widespread and long term use of hand sanitiser, it will only encourage more mutation through micro-organisms. In fact my concerns about the over-use of anti-bacterial and anti-viral products (not necessarily medical treatments BTW) in our general society mean that we actively avoid them in our day to day life wherever possible. Not only are we waging war on the micro-world both on our skin & in our homes but out in the general environment. It will all contribute to genetic mutations as amounts of these products being used grows, and could come back to bite us on our ***. I will use them where required for the short term, but long term we are going to have to be a bit more trusting of our fellow humans again.