Boris said the lockdown has been "overwhelmingly important". But several places have seen numbers decline absent a lockdown, and evidence suggests the infection peak in UK occurred before our three lockdowns were imposed.
While go-slow BoJo talks about vaccine passports and keeping masks and social distancing in place for another year, this was the scene in Texas today. A packed stadium, no vaccine passport required, not a mask in sight.
Having listened to an interview with Prof Jeremy Brown of the JCVI, maths student Glen Bishop draws on the real world data to offer a critique of some of the points he made.
No surge as schools open in the UK, no surge in free states like Texas and Florida – is anyone in Government watching the real world or are they too busy gawping at the huge bell curves in Neil Ferguson's latest model?
Covid numbers continue to fall in Texas more than two weeks after the state lifted its mask mandate and fully reopened businesses, in a move that President Biden dismissed as "Neanderthal thinking".
Two more places show that the "more contagious and deadly" Kent variant fails to live up to the hype: Texas and Florida. Both have no restrictions and a high prevalence of Kent Covid, but no surge.
