Johnson needs to be careful the strategy isn't dubbed "all work and no play" instead because that's what it sounds like. The ST also has a comment from a Cabinet Minister saying pressure to get people back to work is coming from big money and not the general public. I understand the need to get the economy moving again but things need handling with kid gloves.
In what is being dubbed a “whack-a-mole” strategy in Whitehall, Johnson’s team will announce plans to “very gradually” ease the lockdown across the whole country and then “hit hard” any Covid-19 hotspots that erupt after that, imposing even tougher lockdown rules on individual care homes, prisons or whole towns.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-future-after-coronavirus-lockdown-begins-to-take-shape-a-marathon-game-of-whack-a-mole-pw3vc8pmm
From the Guardian
The poll by Opinium, taken between Wednesday and Friday last week, found 17% of people think the conditions have been met to consider reopening schools, against 67% who say they have not been, and that they should stay closed.
Opposition to reopening restaurants and pubs – and allowing mass gatherings in sports and other stadiums to resume – is even higher. Just 11% of people think the time is right to consider reopening restaurants, while 78% are against. Only 9% believe it would be correct to consider reopening pubs, while 81% are against; 7% say it would be right to allow mass gatherings at sports events or concerts to resume, with 84% against.
Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze