Spoke to a friend in Denmark a week ago - they were down to 5 cases a day at the time. We are still much higher than that, but getting better daily. June 1st is still a week away, with a fair wind we may be at a similar level when we reopen, but there will still be hotspots I suspect where rates are still too high. This is one problem with across the board reopening.

The regional approach may yet have traction and there could be attractions to slowing the reopening in certain areas, but there isnt that much of the term left. What we have to avoid though if we have a more flexible approach to reopening, is the incidence of nimby-ism that may arise. There is no obvious reason why this should all happen everywhere on the same day.

Following on, allow me to present another option, if only for debate. Since the school summer holidays are soon upon us, why not keep the schools open in July and part of August, since the kids have had what is to them an "early summer holiday" for the past 9 weeks, albeit interspersed with some home teaching. This would allow a staggered reopening in some of the hotspots. There are no deadlines presented by exams etc, so no need to adopt a hard and fast shut down for holidays that noone will be taking!

It seems likely that the traditional summer holiday in the sun overseas isnt going to happen for most this year, so why not shift the terms around a bit, let the economy kick start without the disruption of a lot of the adult workforce disappearing for a couple of weeks or having to make arrangements for child care.

Now that would be value added provided by our education workforce who could earn national gratitude. We could clap for teachers/TAs etc every Tuesday...........