If anyone believes we are going to see orderly shopping over December given the situation I would respectfully suggest they are very wrong. Never mind the long weekend we'll be getting just before Christmas Eve, there's also the entirety of December as non-essential shopping (that is, gifts) is allowed in all three tiers. If they think people are not going to flood the high streets like a retail deluge they are mistaken. I'm sure shops will do their best (some) in terms of limiting capacity (don't envy the door staff), but that just means, at best, a huge crowd of people outside; queues around every shop.
This long weekend is also a green light for mass social not-distancing (synonyms have today failed me!). It will not - cannot - be enforced. People will just go everywhere and meet up with relatives wherever possible. This is a recipe for disaster and will, inevitably in some cases, lead to infections rising - all as we are potentially on the verge of a vaccine. I'm told that the vaccines are ready to go, waiting for the all clear from the relevant authorities. Don't know if that's true and it's certainly not going to be enough for everyone. If that is true then it would have made sense not to allow this madness. I hate this lockdown as much as anyone (though for genuine reasons, not the 'covid recovery group's' bullshit mission statement), but the bigger picture can't be ignored.
Sadly though, it was.
And of course Boris the bozo wants the Union Jack on the vaccine bottles, because nothing says 'large and in charge' like risking the rollout of a vital medicine just to assuage the fears of Gammon across the land. Idiots. Have you ever heard anything so petty and insecure in your life. As if people need to be reminded, while getting jabbed, what country they fucking live in! That's right, it's the one turned into a shithole by the clowns insisting on branding a bloody virus on grounds of exceptionalism.
I don't see a vaccine becoming effective during December. Afterwards we better not hope it's coming from the EU (I think it is). Can you imagine the 'Covid Recovery Group' wanting to eat crow and giving into any deal just to get the vaccine? I wouldn't put it past them to deny even that, though surely it would be their funeral.
And just ho much money is this 'Covid Recovery Group' getting from the taxpayer? We know the 'European Research Group' charged the taxpayer and got its knuckles rapped for it. It's members have also used their expenses to pay for it as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the same was happening here.
Questions need to be asked given that's mostly the same cast of miscreants.
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