SketchyMagpie
Well-Known Forumite
Interesting look at why infection rates went down after "freedom day". Essentially it says it's because of schools closing and no football but also because people (and businesses) behaved much more cautiously than anticipated, one study even suggesting that the average person had less close contacts per day after July 19th.
It also suggests the coming months have the potential to be less rosy, with returns to football, to work and to school coalescing to provide what you'd expect to be a spike in infection rates, particularly as the latter will be an unvaccinated group.
https://www.ft.com/content/8a10337e-c3fc-435a-9112-8d61db970a60
I don't know anymore. I find it impossible to anticipate which direction this thing will go, as I never imagined that this time last year the worst wave was still ahead of us. I think that will probably turn out to have been the worst wave (unless the virus escapes the vaccine, god forbid) but all you can do is continue to be cautious, I guess.
It also suggests the coming months have the potential to be less rosy, with returns to football, to work and to school coalescing to provide what you'd expect to be a spike in infection rates, particularly as the latter will be an unvaccinated group.
https://www.ft.com/content/8a10337e-c3fc-435a-9112-8d61db970a60
I don't know anymore. I find it impossible to anticipate which direction this thing will go, as I never imagined that this time last year the worst wave was still ahead of us. I think that will probably turn out to have been the worst wave (unless the virus escapes the vaccine, god forbid) but all you can do is continue to be cautious, I guess.
