Simon Jones: Life after lockdown

It’s a perplexing situation where 600 people dying each day instead of the 700 who passed away the day before is seen as positive news, but that is sadly where we seem to be at the moment. The government’s early communications on ‘flattening the curve’ seems to have heightened many people’s focus on the daily death rates from the Office for National Statistics in search of the ‘peak’ of the pandemic.

One can only hope that this deference to death data is borne out of a need to focus on the light at the end of the tunnel. At least then there is some sort of context.