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The lockdown has to end at some point, and as the weather improves it will end, legally or not.
Indeed, the Government can't prevent people meeting up in parks/homes/etc, they can only police it, but they're still in control of the non-private indoor gatherings by means of continued closures of schools, non-essential retail, libraries, pubs, restaurants, sporting venues, etc. It's a very crude tool but it's all they have if the numbers start to climb alarmingly and large swathes of the population have no fucks left to give.
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Yup - and a tool that should be used to respond to rising numbers, and not to keep the population in a perpetual state of limbo because of potential risks. It's that distinction that I worry about as a number of people seem to think that because the risk of numbers rising again is unknown/unquantifiable lockdown should keep going indefinitely.
I don't mean this in a snarky way, but not sure how to word it in a none snarky tone: What's the other option? Give millions of people a vaccine and tell them to stay indoors over the summer?
The lockdown has to end at some point, and as the weather improves it will end, legally or not.