I spotted a flaw in the plan – if we don’t allow singing then the fat lady will be quiet.
Locally the infection rates are doubling every four days. This is as bad as it was in December in terms of getting out of control. A local school, a pub, a swimming pool – all of them centres of infection. And here is the problem – we live such interconnected lives that a small local infection rate can become a big local infection rate very rapidly.
Despite the vaccination success there is still some way to go with this pandemic – and anybody that tells you the government needs to relax quicker really has not looked at places like here. I have no doubt now that a full relaxation in mid June would result in another wave – because of the lack of control we exert on ourselves.
My personal feeling is that it will be closer to the end of August before we get in a position where we can relax most of the rules without raising infections – unless we can show some self restraint.