UK gov today announced (with delta variant surging and against many top doctors and scientists advice to wait and keep vaccinating, after getting so very far with the vaccine rollout, while still falling short on vaccinating the young and many second doses for older) that, they will remove legal restrictions on 19th July and open everything up including indoor venues and removal of a legal requirement to wear a mask on transport and indoors.
That mask one irks me, masks are about other people, soon supermarket workers, bus drivers etc will now have a swarm of possibly infected people pouring in with no regard to how they might feel about it and, some people who are scared will feel like they can’t go shopping now. Disrespectful that given wearing a mask is a small thing you can do for other people and it’s not forever.
The estimate is that it will go from 30k/day cases 100k/day soon (some say 150-200k it could be). Although they aren’t saying it it does look like an fairly expensive attempt to get to herd immunity.
There’s going to be a lot of sick people arriving at hospital soon, even a small % of a big number is still big and some won’t make it and some will be sick for a long time.
Strap in its going to get bumpy