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Thanks all for your contributions, much appreciated.
As usual, thoughtful and balanced contributions from NewJudge.
Personally, I am inclined to move towards allowing the virus to become assimilated into our culture in the same way that flu has been.
The government seems to be to be overly cautious in its approach to this virus.
It is nasty, but it's not the Black Death, and infection is not a death sentence.
We need to continue to protect the elderly and vulnerable, but the average society can assimilate this virus quite easily, especially with the current progress in vaccination.
I hope we can drop the wearing of masks - it appears to be cosmetic rather than genuinely helpful - a government saying "Look, we are doing things to help …" when actually the help is negligible at best.
My view is, this is a virus, you don't have a choice about its presence, you have a choice about how you deal with it, and assimilate its existence into your life.
The choice would be to take a sensible reasoned approach, which is what we need, or knee-jerk supposed 'lockdowns' which are simply being ignored because the public has had enough and wants its life back.
I believe mask wearing should be a choice, but given the dubious actual effects, it should not be compulsory.