Sir John Bell says disease ‘appears less severe’ as other scientists criticise lack of new restrictions in England
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The seeds are being planted t
o do away with isolation now. In a few months time it wouldn’t surprise me if all legal enforcement of isolation when positive is abandoned.
Ultimately, this has to be the end goal if society and all its facets (the economy, health etc.) is to return to at least a sense of pre-COVID normality.
Apart from very certain circumstances, we do not isolate or impose restrictions over any other virus including influenza, so we have to move towards that.
However, and it's a big however, COVID is unlike many other viruses, so this will all depend on how the next few months pan out and how the virus mutates.
If it continues to mutate with a trajectory of mild symptoms, this will be the result; if it doesn't, well isolation may still have to play a part albeit somewhat limited.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
If the risk is nothing in the first place why take it further.
I think the point may be that the vaccine roll-out has to some extent contributed to the lower risk to most, rather than be a different, non-contributing factor.
If an annual boosters continues to a lower impact of the virus, surely it's the right thing to do for most people? For example, I still have the flu vaccine.
There are risks associated with vaccines, no one has said otherwise, but it's balanced versus the risk of the virus being uncontrolled for me AND society.
