A pleasure to speak with @dgurdasani1 on @BBCRadioScot today answering questions like 'when can we go on holiday/" 'when will we see large gatherings' - or rather, not answering them because these are the wrong questions to ask!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_scotland_fm

Providing a day when things will happen is dangerous because we simply don't know what the state of the pandemic will be at that point. It doesn't provide hope, it generates despair (and destroys trust) when you say 'whoops, sorry, can't actually do it'.

We need to go on data, not dates. We need to define (a) the levels of infection at which it is safe to relax restrictions (b) our priorities in terms of what we do first (because if you do everything at once, it will drive infection out of control).

So the real question becomes what can we do to drive infections down as fast as possible? What should the government do and what can we the public do? The advantage of this framing is that, instead of making us passive (waiting for the day, then possibly having hopes dashed)...

It makes us active, motivating us to reduce interactions and mobilising us to demand that Government also plays its part. Moreover, it involves us a partner in the pandemic response rather than keeping us child-like and entirely dependent on what Government decides.

So please, no more 'when' questions. Let's focus on 'how' questions.
How to get infections down
How to keep infections down
How to build a strategy to achieve this

P.S. If you are interesting in listening we are on from about 10.45 - 11am. And here's that link again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_scotland_fm