[jfman]

Manage the response to the Covid 19 pandemic. The same as always.

Pierre says zero Covid is an unachievable ambition. However there is no “living with the virus” in the short term. The idea that we hit a magic number of vaccinations and the Government just open the floodgates and say “we did all we could do” continues to be fanciful.

As I’ve said consistently throughout the thread the decision making that led to lockdown 1 makes another one inevitable unless something significant changes.

The vaccine should be a game changer. However the basics will still apply for some time - finding cases, identifying contacts, identifying who is at risk among those contacts. This should be much easier with the vaccines reducing transmission.

There’s still a significant amount of unknowns. Vaccine performance against known variants, vaccine performance against as yet unknown variants, vaccine performance over time.

Complacency now risks making all the same mistakes all over again and undoing significant achievements to date.

Then again. Some people haven’t considered Covid that serious for 15 months so I’m unsurprised some haven’t grasped this either.