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Don’t get me wrong I hope it’s on the way for both normal being-a-human reasons around not liking people sick and dying and selfish reasons (also normal human) that I’ve got a big (for me) ride planned early summer.
Just so far most public health stuff has been at most “okay” so I’m a little sceptical. I live in a country of 500k people so I guess we will probably mostly be able to all be vaccinated.
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Sure, it's not a case of flicking a switch. And the timelines invariably slip backwards. But this vaccine is already being manufactured, the UK has ordered (I think) 30m doses and the EU 200m. This guy recons that, at the 90% efficacy they are reporting, only 45% of people need to have it for it to control the virus.
And the Oxford vaccine is expected to declare soon as well (we've ordered loads of that and it is being manufactured now too).
So definitely right to be cautious, but some hope of normality.