Facts and Opinions

The data (from the highly respected Zoe project) shows that countries that only reach a vaccination rate of around 65% and then remove all preventative measures are failing to control infection rates now. Countries that manage to push into the 80-85%+ range and retain simple measures like mask wearing on public transport are doing much better and managing to run their economies at near normal pace. Looking at weekly hospital admission rates for our peer group of countries it's clear that the UK is the worst performing nation in the entire Western European economic zone, by quite some distance (see chart below)

It should be clear (to anyone with half a brain) that the UK needs to do something about these trends right now (actually about a month ago) in order to preserve any level of normality in it's economic and social life, or alternatively, watch many of it's citizens die unnecessarily and be shunned (in terms of foreign travel) by most other countries in the world. As a smart man once said, "you can have your own opinions, but you can't have your own facts"..