It looks like the UK government have decided that England will have to learn to live with Covid, and are opening up fully on July 19, restrictions in schools included (although won’t really effect schools much until September) - reportedly with the blessing of CMO Prof Chris Whitty. You would assume the Wales CMO, Dr. Frank Atherton, would be following the same advice from SAGE as Prof Whitty, so will we be doing the same in Wales?
Usually when something like this is leaked to the press with Whitty or JVT's 'backing' it's with very carefully worded support.
Personally, I think a complete opening up is dangerous and I hope Wales don't do it. Although with Wales about to be flooded with super-spreaders from England for the holidays that might be tricky.
A further relaxation of restrictions (including the reopening of IAW) I would fully support. But cases are still rising with social distancing and mask wearing in place.
Scrap that and one of two things will happen:
-We'll have a surge of cases at levels we've never seen before, but the vaccine effect holds and after a month or two we develop herd immunity.
--We'll have a surge of cases at levels we've never seen before, overwhelming the vaccine and the NHS and we're back in lockdown for the start of the new school term in September.