Winter Blunderland?

There is no doubt that the Covid-19 virus is back on the rampage, in the UK. In the present week, there have been 60,000 new cases, 1,700 hospital admissions and circa 600 deaths (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/covid-coronavirus-tough-uk-restrictions-to-last-until-february-at-least-say-experts). Although, I suspect authorities are going as fast as they can, there have been fewer than 140,000 first jabs of the Pfiser vaccine in the country (so, no full protections thus far). These injections will be a complete waste of time, if their recipients are exposed to the virus, before their second jab. Most experts reckon that, it will be, at best, February before it will be possible to lift the planned post-Christmas restrictions (these are planned on the assumption that Christmas will turbo-boost infections). The different countries that make up the UK, are already advising people to, 'use their common sense' and do less mixing than is legally allowed over the designated Christmas period. Do we really need to insist on a 'traditional' Christmas, when the circumstances indicate will be dangerous? I would have thought that Christmas (no schools, no universities, a holiday period), would be a good time to attempt to a) seriously limit viral transmission and b) to crack on with the vaccination programme (this will be easier if many people are at home and easily contactable).