Is Covid over? With Plan B restrictions finally lifted, there’ll be no more working from home. Masks will no longer be required in shops. Covid passes will become a thing of the past. We can go back to normal permanently. Or can we?
Things won’t be the same as they were in 2019, but they will be close. We will live in a world where occasional booster jabs – and careful monitoring of those arriving in our country – are the only noticeable things separating life before and after the pandemic. This normality is available to us, if we want it. The problem is, I’m not totally certain everyone does.
Lockdowns, masks, social distancing and limits on meetings were never intended to be an endpoint. They were a way of managing the pandemic until something better came along. Thanks to Britain’s successful vaccination campaign, it has. Nine in ten Brits over the age of 12 have had one jab; 84 per cent have had two; 64 per cent have had a booster.
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