I’m not sure what to make of this, we had record daily cases of over 113,000 on Christmas Day, but no restrictions announced yet. I really have suspected the English government are trying for herd immunity for some time now. It’s a big gamble. It risks mutations (less benign ones) and the health service. I’d love to think herd immunity could work but all I’ve read has lead me to be sceptical of this being a reality.

I really appreciate the need to help the economy but the week I had covid 1.7 million in the UK did too. That’s a lot of people missing from work places. So then they reduce isolation to 7 days potentially if 2 negative lateral flow tests 24 hours apart on days 6 and 7, which is about getting people back to work ASAP. Except I wonder how many people will test negative on days 6 & 7? I didn’t test negative until day 10 and I was still unwell on day 7. A lot of people I know said the same thing.

I went back to work on day 11 and felt a bit whoozy, day 12 still felt unwell (Christmas day) not until day 13 did I feel properly well again, so all in all it was 2 weeks of illness for me. So letting this rip isn’t really so great for the economy or infrastructure generally and that’s aside from medical service burden.