Looking at the curves UK has nothing to teach anyone.
Noone knows exactly why Norway and Finnland was spared compared to Sweden. Perhaps Stockholm is more like London than Oslo.
But we are much better off than most countries practicing useless lockdowns, maskwearing and even curfews. We are currently at #22, better than UK, France, Italy, USA....
Australia with less than 1000 dead is an extreme example of over-reacting.
The negative effects of the actions taken are much worse than the virus, both for economy and public health.
According to FAO 250 million risk starvation with an additional 6.7 million children 2020 - not from the virus mind you, but from the stupid actions taken.
https://gho.unocha.org/global-trends...-make-it-worse
And that is only a small part of the problem.
So the sooner we open up, the better. It is up to the governments to provide adequate health care and protect the vulnerable. Never in history has anyone had the crazy idea to lock healthy people up in an epidemic. Nor was it in the WHO recommendations, until they lost their nerve in March last year. From October 2019:
https://www.who.int/influenza/public...ublication/en/
Now the only way out of the mess appears to be successful vaccination. Then BoJo can (and will) claim to have saved the queen's own country. And we can travel again, inch'allah.