Got to.say give credit were credit is due they are trying to smash it on the vaccine front, well done all you people trying to get our lives back.
It's the only way.
This isn't a defence of the government here, but it won't be helped by the constant hysteria, constant stories of new variants being able to overcome the vaccine etc. All it does is add fear. That's as damaging to getting it out there as bloody anti-vax freaks.
I'm not talking about propaganda. If there's issues we obviously need to know. But there just has to be perspective.
Having 3.2m done by Jan 15th is not bad at all. Yes, it needs to increase quickly but so far it is doing.
30 days' time - if we hit 300,000 a day (so keep today's pace) - that'd be 12m (give or take) vaccinated/given their first dose. Isn't the target 13.3m people?
Say they have 1.5m to make up to hit that figure though Johnson did fudge it by basically saying the end of Feb half-term - gives them a week to play with. I guess it may slow down at weekends and tick up in the week but if we can maintain 300k per-day it's not bad going.
It's doable. But obviously, that's just the start.
I won't be cryarsing if 13.3m people haven't been vaccinated by Feb 14th. It's not like we'll be out of lockdown then anyway. There'll be no change until early March at least but, if we can get those vulnerable groups done, then there should be no need for lockdowns. Not a full return to normal straight away, obviously, but a tiered appraoch - done right - should then suffice as the vaccinations ramp up across the general population.
That would have to be done right, though. Nothing daft like London into Tier 2.
