[jfman]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Matt Hancock confirmed that lab data showed that the vaccine was effective against the Indian variant. This was also the view of Prof Finn, who appeared on the Andrew Marr Show.

Not like you to do selective interpretation, OB.

I heard of increasing confidence. I heard nothing in absolute terms. The fact Boris took to television on Friday at 5pm makes me think that confidence isn’t that high - added to the u-turn on 12 weeks.

I think, jfman, that you should consider providing links to back up your absurd view of the world, which often appears to defy common sense. You may rubbish the links that I provide, but they add support to the arguments being made, so I would certainly take you more seriously if you did that. Which you won’t, of course…

Like it or not, this lockdown is coming to an end. So will mask wearing and social distancing on 21 June. Don’t forget, you can lock yourself away if you want to. The emphasis after June will be on personal responsibility, not government diktat.

Here’s one for the scrap heap with it going away by itself in the summer (2020).

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Originally Posted by Pierre

“Diet OB” extremely offensive, but funny, I’ll give you that.

I think, and I’m not going out on a limb here, the vaccine(s) have proven themselves effective.

Are the numbers low because of lockdown, vaccine or a combination of both? This remains to some extent unclear. The vaccines against variants even less proven to date. An order of 60 million Pfizer doses for autumn makes me think (as ever) the Government confidence levels aren’t that high.

Again I believe the volumes vaccinated, speak for themselves

Why not, what ones should we keep?

Distancing. Masks. Work from home if you can. The easy, no cost ones at a minimum while more people get vaccinated (twice) and more real world (not lab) data emerges on vaccine vs variants.