This is always going to be the case. I guarantee these types will be pushing for travel restrictions and lockdowns in two years, three years, four years, etc.
A surprising number of people in the comments (which I shouldn’t read) are supporting their own oppression and diminishment. But at least one person has some sense.
Notice the rapid jump between (a) a description of an increase in cases and (b) the fact that this (apparently inevitably) leads to ‘another period of lockdown’.
Leave aside the fact that there is basically zero chance into turning into Chile on the grounds that most of the most vulnerable are vaccinated and the absence of evidence that ‘variants of concern’ actually evade vaccines – what warrants making this jump?
Lockdowns are a political choice. So why is lockdown increasingly framed as an inevitable consequence of Covid?
Since nearly all of the most vulnerable have been vaccinated in the UK (and the US), and it’s clear that the vaccines work against the variants, are lockdowns and travel restrictions worth the huge psychological they take on all but complete sociopaths?
Covid will never be eliminated. It’s too late for that now. Thus, it’s time to quit the pantomime and stop harming people and get on with life.