Lockdown cannot and will not last forever, and it certainly will be lifted long before this virus is eradicated. It is has to, as otherwise the global economy will collapse. Feel like a broken record saying this. It is extremely short-sighted to say this must continue until a cure/vaccine/eradication. Because that simply may not ever happen.

At the moment, there are those of us who are looking ahead rather pragmatically, and saying the above. And there's those who are looking at this with an overly emotional view and saying it must continue indefinitely. I d o not want to sound callous. But, we cannot wreck the lives of millions for the sake of saving a few thousand lives. If that was something we as a society wanted to do, we'd have annual lockdowns for flu season. But we don't. And before long (bearing in mind June is still six weeks away) the restrictions will lift and life will go on, with the fact Covid is around and infecting allowed and managed.

I am fortunate that despite not being able to work, for the time being I am on full pay. But there are many who are not and many many families for whom a 20% drop in household income for an extended period will see them in serious financial strife. Especially if due to an unnecessary extended lockdown, many of the businesses they work for vanish, and they have no job to go back to.

We were lead to believe the NHS would be obliterated by this outbreak and the rush to build these Nightingales was a good decision. But the Welsh one is yet to take patients and there is nothing in Wales saying any of our major "normal" hospitals are at or near capacity.