Most people don't seem worried about this plan to ignore the R, not concern ourselves about case numbers, allow high prevalence and turn our country into Mutant Covid Central.
Even though everyone must know that high prevalence increases the chances of getting more variants of concern which can evade the vaccines.
(Those same vaccines on which this entire opening up so heavily depends.)
And being Mutant Plague Island will increase the likelihood of other countries firmly closing their doors to us.
There also seems to be a degree of magical thinking about boosters. As if, on discovering a variant that can beat the vaccines we will instantly produce a new vaccine, and instantly jab the whole country with it.
When in reality we'd likely have to go back into lockdown for six months while that was happening.
And we still don't know what opening up long before achieving the herd immunity threshold will do. (Or what the HIT actually is.)
Or what the long term effects of covid on our children will be.
But we do know that SAGE think opening up over 3 months will create another wave, and that they advised the government that doing it slowly over 9 months would save tens of thousands of British lives.
And we've always exceeded SAGE's reasonable worst case covid death estimates so far.
We must be at about 150,000 covid deaths by now, so what? 200,000 by June?