With almost 70% of over-18-year-olds fully vaccinated, the UK is now dramatically relaxing its Covid restrictions.
Ethically, Johnson is on fairly safe ground, as everyone who wants to, can get vaccinated, and those who feel uncomfortable about the relaxation of regulations, can always decide to continue wearing masks and maintaining social distancing and other safety precautions. Other countries, if they so wish, can declare the UK as high-risk and restrict travel from and to it.
Will it work? Johnson has a long track record of reckless and deceitful performance. The UK does not really have a reliable person running the country. And this is a gamble. In this case, Johnson’s gamble depends on the ability of the country’s hospitals to cope with the to be expected increased number of Corona-caused hospitalisations.
The payoff – normalisation - would be huge. One must but hope that it does work.
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