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. It’s getting into the warm season there. This is kind of what I’d expect to happen when there aren’t 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 doesn’t make you right. If we’d achieved just a little higher vaccination rate and more uniform coverage in the US, we’d 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-lovin’ fellow lib dipshits were all wrong.
Two days later, dubbed “Freedom Day” by the press, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 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 “personal choice.”
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.
Let’s see how the lockdown lifers handle the end of the worst of the pandemic, and the destruction of their insane ideology. It’s not going to be pretty. But mostly, they’ll only be able to harm themselves and that’s just fine. Amusing, even.