The key obstacle to nightclubs reopening are mask mandates. You can make people going to the theatre sit in stupid masks (although many will baulk at the idea, and I'm certainly not going anywhere ne… (View Post)

Again, I think that's why they'll hold on to mask mandates for dear life. Get us to the Autumn and they can use flu as an excuse to keep them (on the basis that Winter flu + Winter Covid = the collap… (View Post)

I'd say that the current position is the exact reverse of this. It would seem that we are stuck with the measures until it is conclusively proven that it is safe, from the point of view of disease su… (View Post)

There's a little bit of that going on. Personally, I don't care what the R number of Delta is meant to be. It's irrelevant. The very high levels of immunisation already achieved, the likely level of … (View Post)

Up to a point that's true. Leaving aside foreign holidays, where there's the complicating factor of what's going on in other countries to be considered, the remaining restrictions only ban outright l… (View Post)