I'm not aware of anything official or quasi-official that is planned (I got Telegram because that's where the groups are, and there are no announcements of anything before the 26th), but I would expect that a lot of people would be heading to their nearest city centre to express their displeasure. The potential for something bad to happen spontaneously is there, due to the weather (assuming that the forecast holds), as you said in a previous post. Interesting would be an understatement.
This forum has repeatedly over the last year or so predicted widespread civil unrest against COVID-19 restrictions, little or none of which has materialized.
If restrictions aren’t eased as planned on June 21st on the basis that more adults need to be vaccinated, I think it would make sense to allow under-40s to be offered the Oxford AZ jab again, on the basis that blood clotting poses less of a risk than the impact of continued restrictions and the Indian variant. Considering that Moderna has barely taken off, Pfizer is expecting a delay in supplies and Janssen availability is some weeks off yet, there’s not much choice available for the younger population desperate to get back to normal.
Is vaccine availability the limiting factor, though? I thought it was staff/venues
Parkrun events set to return in over 500 locations on 26 June after gaining approval from a large number of local authorities.
www.bbc.co.uk
The Parkrun thread is locked so I thought I’d post here instead. A new date of June 26th has been confirmed for resumption of all events, but ONLY if the June 21st easing goes ahead…
… which I think is bizarre to say the least. Organised outdoor sport has been allowed since March 29th and Parkrun were initially planning to resume events two weeks before stage 4 anyway. While planning application delays have pushed this date back, why they would now choose to delay in the event of stage 4 easing not going ahead on the 21st is beyond me, particularly as nothing in the regulations will further affect organised outdoor sport at that point.
I understood the issue with ParkRun was they were only prepared to open if they could open more or less the full network in one go, as if they only opened (say) half of the venues, then the normal number of people would show up and just go to a different venue if their usual one was closed, resulting in major overcrowding.
Fairly sure it was table service only - at least it was where I went. And masks may not have been mandatory till the end of the month, but everywhere I went people were wearing them!
Memories are a funny thing. Masks and table service did not in fact become required in all pubs/restaurants in England until late September.
Last summer from what I recall about half of pubs were doing table service, the other half where doing bar service. About half you seemed to have fill in the test and trace form, the other half you did not.
Table service and T&T were not required during the summer.
It will come to the point where the restrictions become illegal, especially given the current enabling act. Anything that has the look-and-feel of a requirement to be vaccinated is enough to invalidate the enabling act. I'm not sure if the Uncivil Service Civil Service are imaginative enough to use another enabling act.
You’ve repeatedly posted various assertions on various threads claiming that certain rules would “become illegal” due to a prohibition on regulations requiring mandatory vaccinations in the Public Health Act 1984. But “you must be vaccinated to do X” is not a mandatory vaccination provision, unless perhaps X is something so basic that absolutely everyone does it, such as buying food.
In any event, such a provision could be implemented in primary legislation if the government really wanted to do so, which it doesn’t.
Ironically, WFH means you can covertly be in touch with alternative employers without being conspicuous in your absence from the office (for an interview) or mysteriously come in dressed up smarter than usual one day...
I got a new job last June in just this manner.
I am still going to get a second dose, but mainly because it lowers my personal risk. I do feel somewhat cheated given the government has specially being telling people to get vaccinated to avoid the restrictions (I have seen adverts specially saying this).
If the restrictions are not eased significantly on the 19th July, I am seriously considering moving abroad, at least temporarily while the UK government returns to it’s senses.
I do not rate my personal risk very high but I am getting my second dose as soon as I can as it will inevitably be necessary for the overseas travel that I sorely miss.