@Wakemeuuuup
If they close pubs and restaurants etc down again after letting them spend money on ordering food/drink in and taking staff off furlough many will not reopen when this is all over
I suspect they won't until/unless there is a dramatic increase in hospitalisations. And by that time it will be too late to stop it all spiralling out of control (again) anyway.
On the reopening I do think the goverment's stuck now between a rock and a hard place. But if it wasn't for the complete cock up over letting the indian variant in for pretty much a month after it should have stopped it, we'd probably be in a much better place right now. I think the government's going to try and just vaccinate as much as possible and hope for the best. Bit of a gamble if you ask me.