Restrictions will depend largely on the immune response we see from the vaccines given. This is a positively predicted but technically unknown at the moment.
To put in restrictions to protect people who have actively decided against taking up the offer of a vaccine is ludicrous. To protect those who are unable to have the vaccine, yes. And this is so few it could be accommodated.
I think education is key, if people understood the difference between vaccines they maybe could make a better informed choice later on, when there is a choice.
This might encourage the non vaccinated to come forward. Some vaccines utilise relatively new technology and when talking to younger friends and family, it's these new methods that are putting them off.
Providing we can keep on top of our vaccination program and AZ can manufacture the booster we need come autumn, I think we are in a strong position. And restrictions will be minimal if at all.
We have the manufacturing capabilities (due to the foresight of key people) to produce an altered vaccine to address whatever strains are prevalent. It's all done here in the UK.
With the roll out we should see all our adults vaccinated by late summer with third dose (the boosters) by late autumn. These take ?three months to grow, harvest, and finish so they will want to leave it as late as they dare to get the strongest match to the mutations.
Our vaccine program won't stop, it carries on, there is no getting everyone vaccinated and that's the job done.
Very like flu jabs it will be needed every year. But as the world becomes vaccinated the prevalence of Corona virus will fall and the chance of mutations will also drop. This is why vaccinating the entire world is essential. The virus only mutates inside its host.
A later stage is getting the boosters into a form that the public can self administer, such as a nose spray.