That's fine, I am happy to spend 12months doing fuck all to be honest. If things return to normal, I'll get the booster this time next year and resume my social life. If we're still in groundhog day with 24/7 covid fear porn from the media, variant porn and a million tests a day, I will be avoiding it and spending another 12months doing fuck all. I am not subscribing to a vaccine unless there's an actual fucking benefit from it.
We already have it in Wales, I'm going to a music festival type thing on Saturday and we need to show our vaccination proof to obtain our wristband. It's not needed for regular hospitality though, just gigs/big events. Personally, I think that's as far as it will go, but I wouldn't be surprised to be proven wrong.
It's the testing that's my biggest gripe. We've got the highest rate of covid in Europe, and for the simple reason that we are testing close to 1 million people every cunting day - whereas places like Germany, Spain etc are testing closer to 100k maximum. Stop regularly testing asympomatic, healthy human beings and covid vanishes it's as simple as that. These vaccines were supposed to be the way out of mass testing, yet with close to everyone vaccinated we continue to test more and more and more on a weekly basis - we break our own testing records several times a week.
Gotta keep those numbers up. It's such a fucking shit show. My son had a terrible chest cold all last week. He was feeling better Thurs into Friday but still coughing so I kept him home. For sure he would have been hassled at school about covid and sent home. And yes, I had him tested...at home and Dr. Negative. As a country and even in al developed countries, we will not be allowed to be sick ever again. The mess this has created will never subside now...an entire flu/cold/virus test industry has been born along with the vax everything crowd and boosters. Maybe an off the grid life would not be so bad...