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I guess the things that bother me are [...]
To be honest, I hope those things bother everyone.
The thing that makes me somewhat-relieved/hopeful is that despite those numbers, and despite an explosion in cases, the knock-on to hospitalisations an deaths appears to have been weakened (well, more than appears to have been - statistically it has). The question is how weak the new relationship is. Even a weaker relationship could be very bad at 100k cases a day. But this does seem to have been taken into consideration in the (non-political) decision.
(Non-political in the sense of the decision makers and contributors who are not politically motivated. Not in the sense that I'm claiming the decision had not relationship to politics).
I guess the things that bother me are:
There's still a large number of people who haven't had one dose, never mind 2 doses.
The infections : fatalities ratio is
5 million : 128000 = 39:1 (2.5%)
I know there's going to be a "well how many of the most at risk are still unprotected?".
If the population to receive a vaccine is approximately 52 million (18+) and we're at 45 million vaxx, this would give us the 86% dose 1 uptake number we have. So there's what? 7 million people (18+) who are unprotected (completely).
I'm not comfortable there.
I'm also not comfortable with 19 million not having dose 2, and there being a mad sprint to get those done.
Before 19th July when the schools break up. So that people can go on holiday.