England Lifts All Covid 19 Laws

Correct, yesterday was "freedom day" in England, ironically marked by the health secretary and Prime Minister in isolation due to being close contacts

There's two trains of thought here,

One is that there's another wave coming so bring it on now instead of later in the year and let it run it's through the population while the summer is upon us

Another is that a new variant is on its way and Johnson is playing with fire

It has been coming down for the last few days, just under 40K yesterday.

England has a little over 10X the population of Ireland there so that's the equivalent of roughly 12,000 here! It might work out well for them and I hope it does but the scientists don't seem to think that it will, an NHS nurse was on with Pat Kenny yesterday saying they had to cancel some procedures because that particular hospitals ICU beds were at capacity

40k yesterday, 8k on the 19th of June, also 7 day average on 19th June was 7,600 while yesterday it was 41k so the figures could easily reach 120k in a few weeks time

Yes of course, it's on Newstalk and it doesn't suit your narrative so it must be hearsay. I don't believe she gave figures, perhaps she didn't have them to hand as she was too busy calling patients cancelling their treatments but the segment is up as a podcast if you want to check it yourself

I'm still trying to find one single article from any news source at all that has a nurse or doctor from a hospital telling us "everything is fine" and we should reopen quicker... Don't suppose you've got one?

Nobody wants restrictions forever, and nor should there be, all the scientists and doctors are saying that it should happen just not at the moment while case numbers are clearly rising in a very worrying way.

Johnson thinks he can have the wave now and get it over and done with before schools go back in September so everything will be fine again then... He might be right, only time will tell

Thats a misrepresentation since the UK hasn't actually completed their vaccination roll out yet, and many under 35s are not fully vaccinated yet. So it doens't really seem fair to those who want to be vaccinated.

I wonder was there any hassle in places like the London tubes who are still requiring masks

No, nurses and doctors never really talked much about the virus before its existence, either good or bad, for a very obvious reason. In saying that I do recall chat shows this time last year after the first wave with medical professionals hailing the fact they could get back to working with chronic illness patients

In response to your second question, yes, it's definitely in a news organisations interest to publish such a story. News, good or bad, in a pandemic would get plenty of clicks. Just google COVID-19 vaccine and look at the number of news articles associated with studies on their efficacy, their approvals etc etc