By all accounts the first lockdown came too late (they effectively allowed Covid to be seeded all over the country by International travel, then imposed a long longdown when the damage was already done). That said, there was little support for a lockdown until it was more than obvious that the situation was bad so that's always going to be the issue.

Eat Out to Help Out was an absurd idea all along. Even saying 'Just get on with life as normal' would have been preferable to lurching from a long total lockdown, to encouraging tens of millions of half price sit down meals over a very short period of time inside stuffy venues. It may well have given businesses a short lived boost, but rationally speaking it also made people act unnaturally (many more meals out than normal) in ideal circumstances for increasing the spread of Covid. Nobody was vaccinated back then and so it completely went against the purpose and efforts of the lockdown.

With half the population + now one dose vaccinated we appear to be going the Israel route, which we can see is successful so far. An opening up co-inciding with those most vulnerable becoming fully vaccinated. All that matters is avoiding huge numbers of hospitalisations and based on where we are right now, I think we'll achieve that and hope that those predicting otherwise are wrong.

It's not an ideal situation by any means, but we are where we are and if we look to the longterm 'do nothing' countries like Brazil with 4,195 deaths in the past 24 hours alone, was that really an economy and health boosting wonder move either? Or the 'we've cracked it!' efforts of Sweden, who it turns out hadn't. Every outcome is a sh!t outcome in one regard or another. I personally can't really see the public putting up with another lockdown though, so we should all 'hope' that the gradual opening up and vaccination campaign have done the job.

Looks like under 30"s going to be advised not to take the oxford jab , go for the physer or moderna instead, looks like the europeans were one step ahead of us and wern"t just playing brexit revenge after all, fair play to europe, lets hope boris and his cronies face the music after telling us how safe the oxford jab was!Lets hope boris and jacob don"t have shares in the oxford company, god forbid nanny!

They are stopping giving it to middle aged people, not unsafe, just as they are less likely to get ill from covid its not worth the risk of a blood clot taking it, however little that is, we are advising under 30"s to go with the moderna or pfizer ourselves!

Yes, looks like 20 million jabs and 79 blood clots and 19 deaths - so 1 in a million.

I hope we can all agree that this behaviour is disgusting and those concerned should face severe justice

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Glad to see you held back for three days. Uber under the skin again I guess. Did boris shag your bird, or boyfriend (pc) or do you really wish you were him. Seems to be a deep amount of hatred for the tories. Have you considered joining a site with a few like minded people. Even st20 is a little less radical than you. High Blood pressure coming your way I reckon.