The Independent Alexis Paton said two thirds of the country has, at best, a third of the required vaccine protection needed to see a safe return to normality, given the Indian variant effectiveness of the vaccines. Not great odds, she said, proved as a country, and in particular globally, we are far from our destination of a Covid-free society. “Yet these poor odds are just what the government is betting on,” she said. “In fact, it is staking everything its got and gone all in on a strategy to re-open the country that gambles with the nation’s loose grasp on controlling the virus.”