Chris

They have been saying for months now that *if* a vaccine rollout began by the end of this year it would be Easter before we would see significant loosening of restrictions. There's nothing new here, just some people getting over excited.

Even after everyone is vaccinated we will need to see the long term population-wide data before we understand how well the various vaccines prevent transmission and how long they provide protection at all. And after that we will have to decide what we're going to do about people returning from countries whose vaccine protection programmes are less effective than we hope ours will be. SARS-CoV-2 is going to be with the human race forever and guarding against its worst effects will simply become an aspect of public health policy.