We also need to demand improvements in healthcare capacity, or at the very least ask questions as to why nothing is being done about it, as by next winter almost 2 years will have passed. That might not be long enough to resolve the staff shortages, but we can/could have improve(d) the situation.
Much too expensive, better to just shut down the economy for a year or two and lock everyone in their homes...
I fundementally disagree with this assessment, the government followed established pandemic protocols, and then went of the rails with this inhumane campaign of psychological torture.
In 42hrs our great leader will reveal all in Commons so lets see what the twitterati make of it then
Do you have a source for this? There are definitely sources for an increase in at least calls for suicidal thoughts and Japan has reported an increased rate, but I can't find anywhere reporting 100,000 extra suicides worldwide.
The govt are pandering to there voter base which certainly isn't the young but the fact they have gone all out to make the NHS front, centre and back is somewhat unexpected. Furthermore the indication is most of the cabinet are 100% behind this being the only goal is perhaps a reflection of how they were picked for being single issue Brexit people and are incapable of independent thought. Sunak is the only outlier but even he's backed off but maybe he's worked out what sh*t storm has been created and best bide his time until the fog lifts. Nett impact is the majority have been cast aside as you say but lets hope that Mondays statement marks the start of our journey, even if slow, back to normality.
If they're pandering to their base they've done a poor job of it: firstly because they didn't stop a number of the older base dying with covid, plus some relatives in their base as well losing loved ones, but those who are not in a vulnerable bracket but still in the Tory base are livid at the removal of freedoms and economic destruction.
OK thats a reasonable counter argument so it must be that they are one track issue cabinet who are selected as they won't dissent.
Yes I would say this combined with the effective admission everything they'd done before was a total failure were they to change strategy. Sunak appears to be someone who would happily dissent if it wasn't going to get in him trouble, either through dismissal from cabinet and/or damaging his credibility in the prospects of a leadership election he might put himself forward for, hence why for now he's staying quiet.
) will be two weeks after all adults have been offered their first COVID vaccination.
)Reading the coverage in today’s Sunday Times, the key thing that emerges to me is a willingness to assess the impact of each step before moving to the next.I can't help thinking that the data point at which the government will lift all restrictions (ie social distancing, rules about who can open when and above all face masks (
Given that there are 53.5 million adults in the UK and 17.2 million have already been vaccinated, that leaves 36.3 million still to do.
Even assuming a rate of 300,000 vaccinations per day, which is much less than currently being achieved, this would take us to the end of June. But it is not impossible that we could achieve this target earlier. Assuming a rate of 400,000 vaccinations per day we would hit this target at the end of May.
So I think that whilst Boris Johnson has set a target of the end of July for every adult to be offered their first vaccination, it is entirely possible, indeed probable, that we will hit this target earlier, and thus be able to bring forward the date for the lifting of all restrictions. (
I think we are going to see a similar situation with the reopening of hospitality in England, where the data point will be two weeks aftereveryone in priority groups 1- 9 has been offered their first jab. He has brought this forward to the middle of April, but we are currently on course to hit this target just after Easter.
St George's Day in the pub is suddenly looking a lot more likely than it was a couple of weeks ago, and it would have the advantage for Boris Johnson of wrong footing Nicola Sturgeon, who is likely to want to keep pubs in Scotland closed for as long as possible.
I can't help thinking that the data point at which the government will lift all restrictions (ie social distancing, rules about who can open when and above all face masks (
Given that there are 53.5 million adults in the UK and 17.2 million have already been vaccinated, that leaves 36.3 million still to do.
Even assuming a rate of 300,000 vaccinations per day, which is much less than currently being achieved, this would take us to the end of June. But it is not impossible that we could achieve this target earlier. Assuming a rate of 400,000 vaccinations per day we would hit this target at the end of May.
So I think that whilst Boris Johnson has set a target of the end of July for every adult to be offered their first vaccination, it is entirely possible, indeed probable, that we will hit this target earlier, and thus be able to bring forward the date for the lifting of all restrictions. (
I think we are going to see a similar situation with the reopening of hospitality in England, where the data point will be two weeks aftereveryone in priority groups 1- 9 has been offered their first jab. He has brought this forward to the middle of April, but we are currently on course to hit this target just after Easter.
St George's Day in the pub is suddenly looking a lot more likely than it was a couple of weeks ago, and it would have the advantage for Boris Johnson of wrong footing Nicola Sturgeon, who is likely to want to keep pubs in Scotland closed for as long as possible.
He was buying a lot of coffees, so he was presumably out with the family for their mid-lockdown stroll
I think that the government has learned their lesson and shifted to under promising and over delivering so whatever timetable is announced I am almost certain that the government will bring forwards some elements of it so they can claim a victory in the press (due to our amazing work we can reopen pubs fully 3 weeks early etc).I can't help thinking that the data point at which the government will lift all restrictions (ie social distancing, rules about who can open when and above all face masks (
Given that there are 53.5 million adults in the UK and 17.2 million have already been vaccinated, that leaves 36.3 million still to do.
Even assuming a rate of 300,000 vaccinations per day, which is much less than currently being achieved, this would take us to the end of June. But it is not impossible that we could achieve this target earlier. Assuming a rate of 400,000 vaccinations per day we would hit this target at the end of May.
So I think that whilst Boris Johnson has set a target of the end of July for every adult to be offered their first vaccination, it is entirely possible, indeed probable, that we will hit this target earlier, and thus be able to bring forward the date for the lifting of all restrictions. (
I think we are going to see a similar situation with the reopening of hospitality in England, where the data point will be two weeks aftereveryone in priority groups 1- 9 has been offered their first jab. He has brought this forward to the middle of April, but we are currently on course to hit this target just after Easter.
St George's Day in the pub is suddenly looking a lot more likely than it was a couple of weeks ago, and it would have the advantage for Boris Johnson of wrong footing Nicola Sturgeon, who is likely to want to keep pubs in Scotland closed for as long as possible.
