I've lost all optimism now. I don't foresee a time when we shall ever be free of restrictions, grim warnings about new variants & overwhelmed hospitals and howling jeremaiads in the press demanding another lockdown.
Now that lockdowns have been legitimized as a tool of government control, we...
My guess.
8 March schools return
22 March SAGE announces increase in transmission due to Schools reopening. Reccomends schools be closed and route out of lockdown suspended. All children are to be vaccinated.
11 April. After Easter holidays, Sage reports uptick in deaths among elderly...
If government intends using 'cases' as the principal metric for easing the restrictions, then, increasingly, the roadmap out is going to resemble the M25 Slow and unending. I think we've only been below 1,000 for about a week last July/August.
Surely as vaccinations increase and hospital...