Quote Originally Posted by Vindec View Post
When the number of cases are increasing at an alarming rate, and NHS staff are going sick in their thousands, the government has no alternative than to go into full lockdown. It's the only thing that works. Of course the vaccine is a way out but in the meantime we will just have to get on with it even though it will be more difficult for some than others.

The vaccine strategy is worrying however but, on the face of it, there is some sense in the mass of the population having some immunity by receiving the first dose sooner than they otherwise would have had.
Cases have been rising at an alarming rate for months.

As for the vaccine. What we know. Both vaccines produce a certain level of immunity when the second dose is administered 21 days after the first.

What we don't know. The level of immunity if the first dose is administered 84 days after the first.

The Government has decided to go with the thing we don't know, rather than the thing we do know.