Scraping Social Distancing?

[Joe]

I do agree Boris is moving too fast and it will come back to bite him. You also need to factor in the propagation of the virus, for example at the start of the event you had a pool of potential hosts who hadn’t been subjected to Covid and had very little protection from it, however fast forward a year and you now have a pool comprising Vaccinated, Unvaccinated, Naturally immune (due to previous infection) and various combinations. In short the virus is now propagating in a very different environment than it did previously.
Another very serious concern is artificially slowing the spread of a virus, for example if allowed to propagate naturally it would spread through the whole world in apx 6 months killing 2.3% then fade away, however slowing it could effectively make it more dangerous and give rise to a further species jump (already happening in cats) or worse still more deadly mutations.
Additionally you have to factor in the fact that a very large proportion of the worlds population are pretty stupid and will take every opportunity to have another pointless demonstration and in doing so reignite the virus. In fact I doubt I have ever seen as many pointless demos but I suspect it’s the new social gathering.
Lockdown 3, possibly around October.