With negativity like that, you should be working in the Senedd (sorry, I did mention no more politics). We have to break this mindset in the UK about case numbers, which is not easy as we've had them rammed down our throats from all angles in the media this past 16 months or so. We're surge testing asymptomatic people now as well, numbers are bound to go up. If hospitalisations and deaths follow the same trend, go up significantly and pressure is on the NHS, then I’m with you, let me be clear about that - but they’re not increasing in the same way as of now and that’s a very good indication that the vaccines are working - and IF that continues to be the case in the next few weeks, why wouldn’t there be any hockey?
The TV presenter, Andrew Marr, is a good case in point demonstrating what we're currently seeing - he was vaccinated twice and still tested positive, with symptoms like “a summer cold” as he put it. Not pleasant I’m sure, but no different to what most of us have to go through every year with other respiratory illnesses. That's the vaccines doing their job right there. They are largely preventing serious illness which require a hospital stay and if it means that you’re unlucky enough to get it after being fully vaccinated and that future symptoms if you’ve been vaccinated, are more “cold-like” for the vast majority (as seems to be the case with kids and younger adults too), then I can live with that and surely that‘s not a reason to stop what we love doing? Vaccination is the key and people who are fully vaccinated should be safe to get on with their lives - and by mid July that should be virtually all of the adult population (well those who want it anyway) - and if anyone doesn’t, that’s their choice but the rest of society will be moving on. If vaccine efficacy changes against future variants, then obviously we'll have to think again but there’s no sign of that at the moment.