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Originally Posted by Chris
It's got nothing to do with 'freedom day', mask mandates, social distancing, or anything else. Nor is it British exceptionalism, as the hard data proves - the UK is one of several nations that have been extremely good at getting their vaccination programmes moving, and progressing at speed. That it practically chokes you to say so is just a bit sad.
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It’s unfortunately got everything to do with freedom day, masks and distancing as that’s what the Government have been selling people.
Hiding behind “new variants” as something completely unanticipated causing delay and lowering the efficacy of vaccines (and the speculative second dose delay strategy we are rapidly trying to reverse) is to misrepresent fact. Variants were always absolutely predictable - and in late 2020/early 2021 there was already data on reinfection (Brazil) and lower vaccine efficacy (South African) variants.
I’d contest that what is “just a bit sad” is that you are blinded to the possibility that the Government pulled a confidence trick on everyone before an election and here we are with Autumn boosters and SAGE already warning of winter restrictions.