World Coronavirus Dispatch: Understanding the UK model of living with virus

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Is England’s Freedom Day the model for living with Covid?

The writer of this piece asks: How long can governments enforce or mandate Covid-related restrictions in a scenario in which the coronavirus refuses to go away? Now the United Kingdom has shifted away from this model, ending all legal curbs including on mask-wearing and social distancing, but at the same time cautioned that pandemic is far from over and people must behave responsibly. The bottom-up self-regulation might become the norm in the next phase of the pandemic as more and more people get vaccinated, for one, and the second, get sick