The lockdown picture is getting more and more complicated but let's stop whingeing

Today in the UK it was relaunch day in the continuing coronavirus saga. And by all accounts and reports it has been a pretty confusing day in England with people rushing back to work and filling trains and buses. Not what Boris Johnson wanted but he can't have been surprised. People are more fed up than scared which means a helluva lot of them have decided it's time to get back to work whatever the consequences. Pray God this doesn't mean a mass surge in infections. But, despite Boris's insistence that if infections rise he will clamp down once again and return everyone to their stay-at-home situations, there is such a longing to get back to some form of normality that I think it would be very difficult for the UK government to reverse the new policy. We've had lockdown for seven weeks and with so many confusing guidelines coming out of the government I fear many more people will revolt and start doing what they want to do. Within limits of course. You can't just pack your bags and head off for a long holiday in France or Italy or Spain or the US. Today the mayor of Washington DC for example has extended lockdown until June 8, going against the Trump edict for everyone to go to work. So no flights to Washington. Trump still wanders around, visiting places, without wearing a face mask which hardly sends the right message. His medical advisers must be beside themselves. They advise one thing and the president appears to disagree. It's beginning to be the same here in the UK. After seven weeks of daily briefings from the top medical experts most people are statistics-fatigued. No one really knows the true figures of deaths. In the UK it's currently more than 32,000, yet there are claims that the real figure is more than 40,000. Why? And how is the counting done? Hospitals and care homes are now lumped together but who is counting the Covid-19-suspected deaths at home? Despite the grim statistics is it time for this country to break out of the coronavirus-obsessed way of life. Every conversation, every newspaper, every television news programme are all about coronavirus. Yesterday there was an appalling terrorist attack at a hospital in Kabul. Not something to lift ones spirits I admit but there was not a single mention of it on the main BBC TV news. Bizarre. So if the lockdown is really moving into the next phase, with more freedom for all, let's start talking about something else, anything but coronavirus. Thanks to Boris we now have extremely complicated new rules to adhere to, but let's just get on with it and stop listening to people whingeing. Time for a renewal.