Half the point, maybe more, of vaccine passports is to make the vaccine reluctant think "I'd better get a vaccine". In a way the scheme works best if it's not needed. Hell if the … (View Post)

The Imperial College report which drove the initial response specifically warns about the risk of prematurely using lockdowns. For mitigation you have to start the lockdown based upon when you think … (View Post)

A similar proposal seems to have worked in France to encourage people to get jabbed, it's quite possible that we have simply seen what France has done and thought "we should try that". (View Post)

That's the point Dr. Chris Smith (a virologist) was making yesterday. Do we want to delay cases until winter, or to even further ahead to when there might be an even worse variant? No we don… (View Post)

Instinctively I'd agree with you, but the people who really know what they are talking about don't agree. The JCVI gave good advice about vaccinating by age cohorts and risk, and good advic… (View Post)