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Lockdown is a response to not knowing anything about the virus. We have to close everything because we don't know what spreads it and what doesn't. Once we understand it better we can restart activities we know are not major factors in it's transmission.The “lockdown” phase is surely just stalling for time whilst we measure how deadly the disease it, how easily it’s transmitted, how long it takes to recover etc...as well as doing the necessary to help bolster defences.
The question is, what do we do next? Because it seems to be commonly accepted that there will be no widely available vaccine for at least one year, if not two. I also think we all accept that we can’t operate under lockdown conditions for a prolonged period of time.
I'd say we are getting there. Some countries are learning that it doesn't spread much in supermarkets, for example. We can probably extend that to other stores of a similar size/type.