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I'm uncertain.

I will still wear masks where I feel uncomfortable or where I think appropriate - buses and trains spring to mind. I don't think that this great reset (so to speak) means we all should run amok.

Hospitalisation figures are skyrocketing. We need to remember this. Deaths are increasing. We need to remember this. Anxiety is rife. We need to remember this.

Doktorb | 06.07.21 - 7:07 a.m. | #

Seems to big a jump all at once

Brian | 06.07.21 - 7:17 a.m. | #

I get that we've got to do something sometime, but leaving young people as last to be vaccinated then relaxing restrictions before they've all been double-jabbed feels a bit like throwing them under the bus. Again.

martin | 06.07.21 - 7:36 a.m. | #

I'm uncertain that the minority can be trusted to act reasonably and considerately. I feel it's highly likely that the scientists/modelers know that we'll need to take backward steps once again in the autumn, when schooling resumes after the summer break.

Frank F | 06.07.21 - 7:47 a.m. | #

Seems too big a jump all at once

Tapering would seem to be a better option with the ability to see the ongoing data and tune the tapering.

Rob Gullen | 06.07.21 - 8:04 a.m. | #

I appreciate that the gov't has made a cold calculation about the number of people they can kill vs. getting all of the economy rolling again. What I don't understand is why we can't all wear masks in busy indoor places for a while longer. I certainly will be.

Chz | 06.07.21 - 8:16 a.m. | #

I get we need to open up & think most restrictions should be lifted but don't understand why we would get rid of mask wearing on trains & in shops. Feels like we're actively looking for a new variant..

IOD | 06.07.21 - 8:37 a.m. | #

Now deaths are far below the average for flu/pneumonia, and around the daily rate of road deaths, time to relax the rules towards normality, but the inconvenience of continuing to wear masks on public transport and inside shops bars etc cannot do any harm, event though our "experts" spent months with the mantra that there is no scientific evidence that masks make a difference last summer.

scrumpy | 06.07.21 - 8:42 a.m. | #

Uncertain.

Aware of too many people who don't want the jabs / think they are invincible.

ap | 06.07.21 - 9:19 a.m. | #

As much as I crave normality, I'm fearful of the next variant, particularly given the latest Delta v Pfizer efficacy stats from Israel. And, as ever, the messaging is total tosh. PM says he might wear a mask somewhere crowded where "you don't know the people" or whatever, but it's also fine for nightclubs to open? Urgh.

Gunnersaurus | 06.07.21 - 9:47 a.m. | #

I am double vaccinated and will probably keep wearing a mask on the train, but I am really looking forward to a bit of normality. We can't stay locked down forever, but at the same time, I don't want to see deaths surge dramatically.

flyingfish93 | 06.07.21 - 9:48 a.m. | #

It's got to happen but until we get statistical evidence that is trustworthy about the incidence among "protected" people I will remain cautious

Carl | 06.07.21 - 9:55 a.m. | #

I trust me but I don't always trust everyone else.

popartist | 06.07.21 - 10:06 a.m. | #

Uncertain. I think for many people the guidelines went out the window in April when outdoor eating/meeting and non-essential retail reopened. I pinpoint that moment in time as having gone 'back to normal.'

The biggest worry for me is if 'no restrictions' also includes foreign travel. I think that will be the catalyst for future waves more than anything else.

With cases rising I would also like to have seen the continuation of mask wearing and distancing measures while the situation is still being monitored.
I have been venturing back out onto public transport over the last couple of months and since the limiting of numbers on buses was removed it has become a nightmare again.

Cornish Cockney | 06.07.21 - 10:34 a.m. | #

Uncertain. Mostly because of inevitability of continued rising cases, and despise the efficacy of vaccines, the scope for break-out variants.

Dominic H | 06.07.21 - 11:28 a.m. | #

England is perhaps a case study for what will happen here in time.

Andrew | Homepage | 06.07.21 - 11:44 a.m. | #

As the man said, it's a gamble.

Bob L-S | 06.07.21 - 2:10 p.m. | #

I'm uncertain because the government are being opaque about the impact of their decision.

They will have modelled hospitalisations and death rates, but instead of sharing the data are hiding behind rhetoric instead

This makes me deeply suspicious

Rob | 06.07.21 - 3:11 p.m. | #

Yes. It will go 'tits' up... we secretly know it will... you could see it in Whitty's face

Bruce Wayne | 06.07.21 - 4:13 p.m. | #

I'd keep some restrictions, but if the nhs isn't overwhelmed and wont be, theres no reason not to open up

George W | 06.07.21 - 10:18 p.m. | #











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