ne of the problems with the pictures of Margaret Keenan making history through being the first person to receive a vaccination against Covid-19 is that it’s encouraging people to think everything will be back to normal in, let’s say, May for argument’s sake.
It won’t, of course, and even to move in that direction will require a measure of government action. Take the live events industry, which has lost nearly £60bn worth of business as a result of the pandemic with 90 per cent of this year’s festivals cancelled, sports being played out before empty stadiums if at all, venues with their backs against the wall through being shuttered since March.
The consequences of another year like this would be devastating for both, the industry and the economy. And it could happen even if the vaccine allows measures such as social distancing to be eased to allow events to go ahead.
