Something strange is happening in Britain. Covid cases are plummeting instead of soaring.
I fail to understand why this is strange? Vaccination rate is quite high in the UK. Itโs getting into the warm season there. This is kind of what Iโd expect to happen when there arenโt huge unvaccinated areas as there are in the US. I just do not understand at all why this is surprising.
It was completely obvious the experts were going to be wrong about this. And they were. Doom-mongering is fun but it doesnโt make you right. If weโd achieved just a little higher vaccination rate and more uniform coverage in the US, weโd be in the same fortunate situation.
Public health experts, alongside the government, predicted that cases would be rising in Britain at this point, perhaps even exponentially.
Charles Stross and his lockdown lifers and prison country-lovinโ fellow lib dipshits were all wrong.
Two days later, dubbed โFreedom Dayโ by the press, Prime Minister Boris Johnsonโs government ended almost all government mandates in England for mask-wearing and social distancing. Pubs are serving pints at the rail and night clubs have reopened with maskless youths packed on the dance floors. Viral defense is now a โpersonal choice.โ
And so some of the best infectious-disease modelers on the planet warned that 100,000 new cases a day this summer could be expected.
Letโs see how the lockdown lifers handle the end of the worst of the pandemic, and the destruction of their insane ideology. Itโs not going to be pretty. But mostly, theyโll only be able to harm themselves and thatโs just fine. Amusing, even.