Things and plans are for a change much like they are saying. Aim to reduce lock down levels at some point in time but wont know if they can do that until they are aware of conditions near those times. Number of people likely to be infected in the population etc. The NOS sample people and then there is the normal testing that goes on in varying numbers.
One change has been mentioned today. March 8th. One person always the same one may visit a person in a care homes providing they are tested first and wear a mask. Some actions allowed and some not. No snogging for instance.
Sounds like testing before may crop up in other areas.
My cynical view when I heard mention of this was 2,000 etc going to a football match. Being fair though no idea where this might be used but practicalities have to be considered - I hope.
Anyway Boris spells it out on Monday. He's indicating no more after this one but how can he be sure of that really? I wonder if we will switch to a covid type plan not flu but that can still result in lockdowns. Maybe large area ones will work. Small didn't.
I suspect they have too many unknowns to do anything rapidly and infection levels are still way to high anyway. One worry will be just how effective the vaccine is. That wont clear up for a while. Different ones are being used and there are indications that some may be more effective than others. Then mutations. They wont prevent people from catching it and they may still be capable of spreading it to some degree that might or might not be better than usual. The aim of them is to improve outcome.
My wife was chatting with 7 teacher training long ago cronies yesterday. 5 AZ and 2 Pf. It seems some AZ were told the next one will be Pf. We weren't so another trial maybe or TBD?
