We now have 85% with the first dose, and 65% fully vaccinated. Cases are rising rapidly but hospitalizations and deaths are not following.
All restrictions are being lifted in one weeks time, which seems stupid, but some commentators can see a logic to it: 99% of all deaths have been in the over 40, and in a weeks time all over 40 who wanted it will be fully vaccinated. The current rises in cases are driven through schools and young men get drunk and being stupid whilst watching the football championships, both of these will diminish in the next few days as schools break up for summer and the kickyball stuff ends.
By no coincidence a report has just been released showing that under 18s are very unlikely to suffer severe symptoms or die from covid whilst the Chancellor is speaking of the problems to the health service if there is another wave through the winter as flu and other annual pressures hit the hospitals.
So putting this all together more than one expert has suggested that the Government are now willing to let covid run free through the population and for us to achieve full heard immunity before the autumn. I see it as a dangerous gamble, but what else can be done? Continued lockdown will end large parts of the economy, the patience of the population is spent and there is nothing new to wait for.
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