Ending of COVID restrictions brought forward by PM

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Sir Lancelot said:
You don’t need to vaccinate 80% of the population to prevent deaths. You just need to vaccinate the vulnerable ( around 2.5 million people)and those over a certain age. Once that is achieved you can take off the brake and let covid run through the younger people who mostly just brush it off and don’t require hospital treatment. It’s not an all of nothing thing.
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Looking at around 17m people if all those eligible for a flu vaccine would qualify for the COVID vaccine
 


Sir Lancelot said:
You don’t need to vaccinate 80% of the population to prevent deaths. You just need to vaccinate the vulnerable ( around 2.5 million people)and those over a certain age. Once that is achieved you can take off the brake and let covid run through the younger people who mostly just brush it off and don’t require hospital treatment. It’s not an all of nothing thing.
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Ok accepted you don‘t need to do the 80% as a minimum viable solution, but surely we are aiming for herd immunity through vaccination to eradicate the virus? Else why are we buying so many doses of vaccine? I would also think you would want to vaccinate front line NHS and Care staff in the minimum pool, then the armed forces to ensure they remain fit, then police and fire to limit the spread in those populations?
 
Herd immunity is effectively impossible. It's not proven any of the vaccines stop transmission, and even if one (hopefully) is, we're a global society now, COVID will always be around. We're buying so many doses because we have a lot of people to inoculate. Long term, you either have the vaccine or you catch the bug at some point.
 
This Daily Mail article suggests only 4 hospitals in the country are busier than the same time last year:

www.dailymail.co.uk

Only FOUR hospitals are busier than they were last winter, data shows

Number 10 was today accused of running a 'brainwashing campaign' after analysis showed only four NHS trusts in England are busier now than they were this time last year - despite Covid warnings.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Apologies if posted and discussed elsewhere. If verifiable, is it relevant? Obvious inclination from reading it is to say it shows Coivd hyperbole...why is that wrong, if so?
 
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