£50 fines?
Remember those still screwed because Covid sn't over. About £5000 a year covid bill here in the UK for about 500,000 - happening now in another step towards a two-tier health service
Those for whom the vaccines don't work (eg everyone on cancer treatment, those who have had transplants). For whom there is an MHRA approved preventative drug.
This drug -Evusheld - will cost the NHS £400 per dose with the manufacturers offering a money back offer if it doesn't work well enough (an offer made to get the drug into parients asap, because it's life-changing). There's a large (growing) body of international evidence which shows it does work - in use in 33 countries, and Britain is the only country which has made a decision to have failed to provide it. It's even free in US because it's so important at keeping the vulnerable out of ICU
We have a creaking health system, but won't do this to take pressure off ours
Instead it's "buy it privately" at £1,000 now rising to £1,400 next year. With typical associated private appointments for prescription, dispensing and administration being about a further ££££s, twice a year.
Things like cancer already make a train wreck of many family's finances. But our lovely government wants to make it even worse for those people (it's called 'kicking them when down") whist setting a precedent that they don't need to ensure that everyone is protected.
It's m like multiplying a £50 fine by 100, and imposing it annually, just so the most vulnerable get their lives back
I think people forget there's a population, about the size of Sheffield or Glasgow or Bristol - people of all ages, and any occupation - who are still being told to shield.
Everyone should get get their lives back, not just some