*sigh* Why do so few people understand that the point of what the UK was doing was to go faster? That's why we stretched the intervals to 12 weeks, to get more people jabbed sooner. Countries ca… (View Post)

That's your hook in my opinion. Explain to him that essentially everybody will get covid in the long term, that realistically he can't avoid getting infected for the rest of his life. So hi… (View Post)

If he is proved correct — huge pinch of salt, touch wood, cross my fingers — he deserves a lot of credit. I'd forgive him pretty much anything if he got ending lockdown right. (View Post)

What really gets me is the sheer number of people who seemed to think that because the trial used a 3 week interval, in order to get the trial done quickly, that must be the optimal and even the only… (View Post)

I disagree that speed is less of an issue now. Speed matters just as much now, because the sooner we finish our first round of vaccination the sooner we can start the booster programme. Ideally we wa… (View Post)