Whilst I understand what twosips and paulchapo are saying, I think we'll just need to wait a few more weeks or a couple of months to see exactly what the 'distancing until autumn' entails.
If it means continued wearing of masks in supermarkets and shops, and restrictions on large scale events ie limited capacity at football stadiums, no music festivals until later in the year and that sort of thing then people I think would generally accept it. Keep pushing the hand washing, and promoting giving space to vulnerable people and other members of the public, staying off work if you develop a cough etc until you're tested. No foreign holidays even, or if so then with strict enforceable quarantine where appropriate. All of the above is sensible.
If you still can't sit in a family members living room having a drink with a few other households and are told to sit apart from them and all the rest of it then I simply cannot see people tolerating this approach much beyond the next 2 or 3 months. And certainly not relaxing only to be in this sort of situation again next winter.
So I hope for visits to family/friends (without limits/distancing where people are vaccinated/pre infected), pubs perhaps with slightly limited capacity, restaurants, sporting events with limited capacity, music events with limited capacity, schools, soft plays and children's activity centres, cinemas, bowling and all the rest of it.
I don't understand why that won't be doable by late spring, early summer, and I think any government will have a hard time from keeping people from this sort of stuff. It can't keep being delayed until the next spring, autumn, summer, whatever.
