Covid: not nearly “over” yet
The Tory government has said that it will probably scrap the vax mandate for health workers due to come into force from 2 April. A mandate to be vaccinated to protect others (partially, of course: no vaccine is 100%) has some logic; but this mandate has always had many arguments of practical advisability against it. For the Tories to try to enforce it from 2 April while they have hinted at dropping even self-isolation rules from 24 March could hardly be workable. The harm from health workers being redeployed unsuitably or losing their jobs, and the NHS becoming even more understaffed, would be...