Quite a few rumblings about a possible lockdown.
If that causes a predictable mass outrage then perhaps the "compromise" from the government would then be to add to the vaccine passport restrictions.
It would likely appease the majority .
Then at least the majority can have their freedoms etc
I can see this as a possible plan.
They're all busy stoking the fear at the moment
Many people are worried about what's around the corner.
Lockdowns end up being implemented because the government fail to put adequate protections in place at an early stage which allow people some semblance of a normal life, schools to remain open etc but whilst balancing that with protections which help to slow the spread. Where that is not done because the government faf about being indecisive the virus spreads and threatens to overwhelm the NHS and they leave themselves with nowhere to go other than to shut the country down.
Adequate protections are needed so that people can go about their daily life perhaps in a slightly different manner but they can work, see friends and family, kids can go to school and the NHS can offer the care it should be giving to anyone with a variety of illnesses, not just covid, and those protections will be unpopular but are far far better than going in and out of lockdowns.
This type of thinking is what the government are counting on
It will enable them to segregate the population with vaccine passport restrictions.
Create fear with the possibility of a new lockdown for everyone then "compromise" with more restrictions for the unvaccinated
The modelling is all rubbish. The massive numbers modelled after freedom day never materialised and made Sage look like idiots
and yet I was just reading articles where Neil Ferguson is being quoted as saying the hospitalizations related to Omicron could be so much worse than even Javid predicted
Why is anyone listening to him?