Lockdown will end - Everything back to normal in June?

I'll repeat the phrase used by Chris Whitty when asked sometime last year about the effectiveness of social distancing, masks etc...
Anything helps.

To quote Chris Whitty last year "Wearing a mask if you don't have an infection reduces the risk almost not at all. So we do not advise that."

And he also said we would have 4000 deaths a day without a second lockdown. I don't condone that boy harassing him in the street, but he was right in what he said, that Whitty has lied.

While I agree with much of what has been said this point is a misnomer. That was a scenario based on doing nothing.

To quote Chris Whitty last year "Wearing a mask if you don't have an infection reduces the risk almost not at all. So we do not advise that."

If they do work, why did he say in March that they didn't?

Yes, so exactly as I thought. Chris Whitty said that mask wearing was ineffective at reducing your own risk if you don't have an infection.
However, plenty of studies suggest that mask wearing is effective at reducing the risk to others if you do have covid-19. Including if you are asymptomatic and including if you have no idea you have covid-19. Therefore, mask-wearing is effective at limiting the spread of the virus and reducing collective risk. Chris Whitty has not said that masks "don't help".

Tbh I think he had good intentions there. Masks were in short supply and he didn't want people buying up all the available stock and leaving the NHS short. But as for the 4000 deaths a day, why did he make that claim when he knew it was based on oudated information and the most recent data simply didn't support it?

I am unfamiliar with the context and I do not wish to be drawn into a separate discussion to the one I first entered. Thank you.

The data did not support the assertion that we could have 4000 deaths a day if we did nothing. That figure was based on outdated information, new data made that older projection inaccurate. They knew this, but still used the 4000 figure as a big scary number to frighten us into a second lockdown. They have pursued a policy of fear, and in my view that's disgraceful.

Yes it did. Bearing in mind the modelling was trying to model an unknown pandemic.

It’s obvious that you’re upset about something. Please do tell us why you’re so upset.

No it didn't. The 4000 deaths a day projection was based on the number of cases they had at the time. But in the time between them making that projection and telling us, the case numbers had dropped quite a bit. So the 4000 deaths a day figure was no longer accurate, the real number of deaths a day in a worst case scenario at that point would actually be lower. They were misleading people, plain and simple. That's what I'm upset about.