[St Charles Owl]

Alongside Johnson, it's scary to observe a UK Health Sec who still thinks COVID is flu and unconcerned re the high levels of infection - doesn't realise that those who do best for health also do well for the economy. And wants to ditch all protections while only half the population is vaccinated. It looks like another wait for a few weeks before the expected U-turn from this Brit govt, hoping for non-disastrous interim damage. And again this is clearly all about the country's economic health v public health implications, highly political and desperate in their true motives to announce this kinda policy and concession re the death toll.

Any politician or Government Health or medical science spokesperson who makes a comparison between the flu and Covid is either stupid or has a political agenda/belief around the whole pandemic. The only thing it has in common is that we are going to have to learn how to live with it because Covid is not going away.

I do think Governments across the globe are now reaching that point where tough decisions need to be made that both safeguard people and get economies back on the move. Pushing to get people vaccinated is the start and the UK is doing better than most countries on that and looks like getting to the 70% fully vaccinated herd immunity mark, something I think we won't see here in the US. The UK also seems to still do a better job with testing than I am seeing here, we opened just about everything up last month and we haven't seen a rise in cases but I do wonder if thats because people are not showing symptoms and are not actually being tested. Having just been through the July 4th holiday might see a spike in the next couple of weeks, lets see what happens.