What happens after being vaccinated?

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I’ve had Covid, and basically nothing changed. I still wore a mask, still distanced, still had to follow number limits and queue to get into shops. Any immunity I had was ignored pretty much, irrelevant in terms of living more normally.

At what point does this change? MIL is in her 80s and in a dementia nursing home. FIL is just under 80. Assuming that they both get vaccinated soon, whats going to change for them? Will he be able to visit her in person, hold her hand? Will the care home staff stop wearing PPE and start activities etc again as soon as they and the residents are vaccinated?

Is there going to be any programme of antibody testing post-vaccination to confirm that it has worked for individuals?

Umm...no it needs to be getting back to normal in the spring.

I know that you are struggling kittens, but it needs to get back to normal when it is safe to get back to normal. We haven't been through all of this to rush it at the end. It will be a gradual process, but I'm confident that we will get there eventually.

Well said knittingaddict

I don't know any backstory of Kittens, but anyine who thinks 'life will be normal in the Spring is living on a different planet.

Even if mass vaccinations started in January, you need one jab, then wait a month, then another jab, and then another month before you are considered 'vaccinated', from my understanding, and, of course that will just be the first few people. I understand it needs 80% of the population to be vaccinated for a sort of herd immunity to really work. That will take months.

There will hopefully be a gradual lifting of restrictions over time, not some kind of "Freedom" date when we suddenly start doing everything that was stopped last March.

@Backforgood. It's 21 days between jabs, and then a further 7 days until you are fully immune. So a total of 4 weeks from when you're first jabbed. So care home residents should be immunity by late January/early February and the over 80s around the same time as they're doing the first two groups in tandem. Beyond that it does depend how fast they can go, but there have been plans leaked that would get all over 16s done by April. Once everyone has been offered it I can't see most people continuing to accept restrictions on their lives for the protection of those who have refused it. Those who can't have it for any reason (which is quite rare I think, as it's not a live vaccine) are just going to have to take their chances really aren't they?

@tortoiseshell1985

It depends on what Whitty and Co dictate I don't recall voting for them at the last GE?

Do you think that the government make policy decisions based on the knowledge and expertise of the cabinet / MPs, so the ones that you voted for, or do they consult with experts in each particular area, and the make decisions on that and on their political ideology?

Thanks Firefliess. I'd misunderstood, however, I still can't see 'the World being back to normal' this Spring.