'Doomsters' or Cassandras?

The new UK Health Minister claims that the 'best way to protect the nation's health' is to lift all the Covid19 restrictions. He opines that the restrictions have increased domestic abuse and worsened mental health. This might well be true but it's only a part of the picture. Members of the UK's SAGE subcommittee on behavioural science think, however, he is back to treating Covid19 like influenza. They say that making safe-guarding a matter of personal choice will be like 'building variant factories' at a fast rate (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/uk-scientists-caution-that-lifting-of-covid-rules-is-like-building-variant-factories). The SAGE folk are likely to be treated as 'doomsters' (folk regarded as insufficiently optimistic about the future). Sadly, they are likely to end up as Cassandras, emulating the mythological Greek prophetess, whose pronouncements were never believed. Nothing is going to get in the way of 'freedom day'!