07-06-2021, 08:45 AM
B1, my suspicion with Johnson is that he's looked at what happened to the numbers during last year's school holidays (summer) and thought that if we can just muddle through until then the natural 'firebreak' will give the impression of justifying his decision. The problem he will then have created for himself is that within a couple of weeks of schools returning in September infection rates were climbing exponentially - quickly leading to a second surge more lethal than the first. An error he compounded by simply refusing to recognise that schools are, at any time, hotbeds of infection and spread (for all manner of sicknesses - not just Covid).
Vaccination levels should mitigate against things becoming that serious again this year, but to me it still smacks more of winging it than coherent strategy.
Vaccination levels should mitigate against things becoming that serious again this year, but to me it still smacks more of winging it than coherent strategy.