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Originally Posted by jfman
It’s not the civil servants bit that’s interesting (I agree - they’ll be doing all kinds of contingency planning) it’s the fact it’s clearly being briefed.
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Yes, they’re definitely ‘letting it be known’ - if they’re genuinely trying to keep disruption to a minimum, however, this still doesn’t make further restrictions inevitable. We had a similar situation in Scotland last month when a series of changes to the rules that had been quietly briefed for days suddenly failed to appear.
I expect at the moment they are *hoping* that a combination of high booster rates and a possibly less severe illness from omicron will render curbs unnecessary. But if that doesn’t work out then the appropriate policy option has to be ready to go.