Far too much reliance put in the jabbed helping to contain the spread.
I suspect that is the problem. The message seems to be one of coercing people to be vaccinated (by controlling access to places people want to go to), and the outcome will be less deaths and severe illness and strain on the NHS. I get that.
But, many people who are vaccinated become complacent and think that they are now protected and they are protecting others from spreading the disease. And that's not the case at all.
The facts are, the virus does not know or care who's vaccinated and who's not. And if you get close to anyone else, there is a risk of catching the virus. And that's a simple fact, but not one which people seem to have registered.
It annoys me when I see the idiot questions of "can I meet my family, can I attend a party, can I go on holiday? ". Of course you can, and of course you can take on that risk of contracting or spreading the disease. You should not need a government to tell you something that's just plain common sense.
This virus is not going away anytime soon. We have to live with it. And before the anti vaxxer's all shout "yes that's right, just like we live with the common cold, open everything up stop restricting our lives", no that's not right.
We can only live with covid if the majority of the population are vaccinated and do not have to attend hospital and overload the NHS if we get sick. And that may well include 6 monthly boosters.
Unfortunately, it's pot luck if we get it bad, or die even if vaccinated. But at least the vaccines decrease the risk, not just of covid illness, but the risk of say a cancer patient not getting treatment because a really sick unvaccinated people is taking up beds and resources.
I appreciate its difficult for any government to come up with a strategy. But I feel it's all down to the message.
Remember Boris's speech early on at the start, along the lines of 'many people will die and loved ones go before their time'? He got criticised for that, and yet it was correct and what people needed to be told.