It’s time to get on with life. If the NHS was under pressure (as was supposed to be the whole reason anyway for the initial lockdown), I’d have a different opinion and might agree more with you, but that is simply not the case now given the successful vaccination roll out. This reduction in our civil liberties is just not acceptable anymore. For those who don’t agree, then you have the choice to stay locked away.
It’s not that simple though is it.
Whenever I see comments like this I wonder if the person saying it is being selfish or they just don’t understand what’s happening.
The vaccine doesn’t suddenly make everything fine.
Once you've had the two doses of the vaccine:
1. You are less likely to catch it.
2. If you do catch it you are a lot less likely to be seriously ill with it.
3. You are less likely to pass it on.
So if you catch it you might not be unwell but you might pass it on to someone who then does become ill, or who hasn’t had the vaccine yet, or is high risk and the vaccine hasn’t protected them etc.
The vaccine works brilliantly when cases are low and a high proportion of the population are vaccinated. Unfortunately cases are rising and we don’t have that high a proportion vaccinated. Especially children who are spreading it quickly now thanks to the Delta variant.
How many people calling for an end to restrictions were rubbishing suggestions of a second wave last year?
What if this current third wave continues to see cases rise and rise and we start to see hospitalisations and deaths rise? NHS staff can’t just opt to stay locked away. They have to keep themselves on the front line at risk, just as others such as teachers, police, supermarket workers etc.
The frustrating thing is it didn’t have to be this way. 2 month ago everything was looking great. Cases were coming down quickly and we were looking like being back to normal by August.
But when cases started to rise in India Boris Johnson refused to put it on the red list. By the time he did the Delta variant was already in the U.K. A variant that has a higher rate of infection, a higher rate of hospitalisation, a higher rate of transmission amongst children and requires a person to have had both doses for the vaccine to have an affect.
2 weeks of hesitancy has probably delayed us by two months. And all because Boris Johnson wanted a jolly to India.
If only we didn’t have the worst people in charge of the U.K. at the worst possible time.