Nationalist propaganda mate. England have opened up a bit, the same as Scotland essentially, and the virus is still declining and becoming less lethal (this is either because of more testing finding more mild cases, it’s mutating, we’ve reached a level of community immunity or we’re treating it better in hospital ...or perhaps all of these things).
Here’s two facts I like to share with people who’ve been unnecessarily terrified by all of this
1. You’re more likely to die of being Scottish (average life expectancy 77) than of COVID (predominant case fatality is over 80)
2. since June more people have been dying of the flu in the UK than COVID. And there’s plenty of evidence that the latter number has been inflated and these will include normal elderly deaths from pneumonia etc that are being counted as COVID
so, yes, we should be getting back to cautious normality ASAP before more people die of suicide, untreated cancer and heart disease than COVID.
the only way this will happen is if the public take an interest and wise up