IC, when the government publishes its guidelines for sealing up our doors and making us wear hazmat suits at all times I’ll get my gun... Er, stick (how do you do strikethrough on mobile?) put on my American Civil War songs and join the revolution, but from where I’m standing it looks more like the government wants the lockdown
gone as soon as possible rather than made permanent. While I definitely am missing the simple pleasures of going to cafes and pubs and browsing the few remaining bookshops, I’m not particularly missing that intimate contact with anyone any more than I already have been for about the last decade. Welcome to my world.
As Rui mentions, I think it is probably a good opportunity to look at whether the way society functions is really the best way of doing things; how many people really need to commute and work from a workplace these days? Certainly anyone who only needs a computer and a phone could quite easily work from home and potentially save themselves a lot of money. Do they need constant supervision, does it really matter how people do their job as long as they achieve the desired results? It might show just how unnecessary a lot of management is...
As for children, I do think it’s a shame for them because they do want to do what comes naturally and play and have human contact and the youngest ones aren’t really going to understand why they can’t (plus I myself am pretty much living proof that lack of social interaction as a child socially cripples people later on). However I’m not really sure my opinion has changed that much, I felt sorry for children growing up in this society before the lockdown and I’ll continue to feel sorry for them after.