You seem to be arguing slightly different things with me, so I am going to be clear in laying out my position.
- The UK is currently not in a position to be opening up it's economy in the manner it is doing, Garden Centres included. If we'd acted sooner we might be, but we didn't so we are not. Once testing, tracing and tracking is in place, and community infections are down, we might be. Football is part of that. Until those are in place - not predictions that it will be, when it is, and is successfully running, like in Korea and Germany - then any opening of the economy will take us back to square one, damaging the economy in the process.
- The economy isn't in a recession because people should be getting on with things or getting back to work, it's in a recession because that is a very natural reaction to a once in a century global pandemic. You can't have infinite growth forever. We would be better positioned if we hadn't had a decade of austerity, but here we are. For the economy to recover, counter-intuitively, we shouldn't be rushing people back to work.
- I agree, the results of the pandemic will have knock-on efffects in terms of broader health, mental and physical. But shrugging our shoulders and pulling up our sleeves is not the best way to address that.
- I don't think it is possible for us to finish the season, given the above conditions, before July or August. I believe football is a middling priority right now. I think we might be able to play part of the new season behind closed doors, if we get to grips with things in the next 2 months. There would be ways of making things fairer, like possibly seeding teams or whatever, that everyone in the league and beyond will be able to agree to.