Princess I listen to him too and have found him right pretty much.
However it depends what you’re hearing because the detail / figures is what’s important. Also he has said we will tolerate a certain amount of risk (deaths) and we’ll be largely back to normal.
And what will happen, once the vaccination has rolled out across a wide enough part of the population, so that the most vulnerable are protected but also so that enough people are protected, to actually reduce the risk for the whole society – that’s going to take a rather long period of time, but months, not years.”
Whitty said restrictions will be lifted “stage by stage” and not in one go, which will allow life to get to “basically” how it was before the pandemic.
And on risk:
Then, ultimately, as Professor Whitty explained: “At a certain point, society, through political leaders, through elected ministers and through parliament, will say this level of risk is a level of risk that we think it is appropriate to tolerate.
“Just as we accept that in an average year 7,000 people die of flue, and in a bad flu year, 20,000 people die of flu. We accept that as that is what happens biologically.
“At a certain point you say, ‘actually, the risk is now low enough that we can largely do away with certainly the most onerous things that we have to deal with’.
“This will be a kind of gradual retreat from that, but it is a de-risking process rather than it’s just going to go away. We will de-risk hopefully to a very low level of risk, but I think it’s very unlikely we’ll get to zero level of risk.”
So we can all listen to him and you hear your version presumably but hearing above I reckon we’ll do as he says and vaccinate, go back to normal and accept level of risk.