Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
The scientific community and Governments, both devolved and UK, have a problem. On the one hand, they're trying to get us to have a vaccine because it makes you safer from COVID and, on the other, they're trying to convince us that it is still a danger - the two views are incompatible. Although the public have, generally, been brilliant so far, in that they've followed the rules and seem to have a innate knowledge of when Governments, especially the UK one, have tried to relax things too quickly, I'd say we're getting to a time now when the large majority are going to think enough is enough and try to return to something like normality - yesterday's scenes didn't surprise me and, as someone who has urged caution throughout the pandemic, I can't really blame those responsible given what it's been like for the past thirteen to fourteen months.
Listening to LBC tonight it seems obvious that the Government message has changed in the last few weeks

An interview from Boris abou t a month ago was praising the vaccine and saying that it was the reason the case and death figures were going down.

More recently he has been downplaying the vaccine and saying that the lockdown was the reason for the fall. IT seems he is concerned that there is a view that as the vaccine seems to be working so well we can go further in relaxing the restrictions earlier. He is especially under pressure from some of his backbencher who have always though that the roadmap was too restrictive. The government is worried thought that if it does relax the rest of the rules too soon and there is a third wave,( perhaps because of a new variant that gets past the vaccine) they would get blamed for changing things too soon.

I'm not sure the two views you mention are incompatible though. Yes the Government need to stress the comparative safety the vaccine brings but also has to point out the danger from the variants of the vaccine that could still cause devastation if we are not realyl careful with the path taken in the days ahead