Yes but my concern is that if the virus is allowed to replicate unchecked the nature of the illness may become more serious because the virus starts to evade certain neutralising antibody reactions.It's probably inevitable that cases will actually go up now that schools are opening and when other businesses open, but as long as the death toll keeps dropping that's as good as it's going to get.
What new have we learned about the virus in the last 3-4 months? I have learned that it has mutated to a much greater extent than we were led to believe. That suggests to me that we should be cautious about the variants and their potential. One of the governments own tests for reopening was that we should assess the risk posed by variants but dropping the focus on the R rate or new cases seems to me to go against that.