Day 3 of national lockdown. How surreal is this?

The day before lockdown, I drove four hours return to pick up my 76-year-old mother in law so she could isolate with us. Her house is very cold and she doesn't have the means to keep it adequately heated, and it's getting steadily colder now. Plus we didn't want her to have to go to the supermarket. So there's my 36-weeks-pregnant wife, our 15-month-old son, my MIL, and myself. I'm working from home, and picking up some extra freelance work. The baby's due at the end of the 4 week lockdown, but I don't believe for a second that the lockdown will lift then. Police are escorting fathers from the maternity suite if they fail to follow instructions to leave - that's the path I'm planning to take. I feel I have a natural right to be with my wife and child at birth and until they're fit to leave the hopsital, and only a Police escort will convince me otherwise.

I'm worried about the economic repurcussions, and I'm honestly not convinced that "hide in your houses" is a good strategy against a virus when we expect the vaccine is 12-18 months away. The moment the lockdown is lifted, the virus will spread again - so what are we gaining? If after 12-18 months we can all be vaccinated - great - but we'll almost certainly have a worse economic depression than the Great one. This is balls.