Rross, is it possible that exactly the same will happen this summer? I think that the vaccine will work because it is a new vaccine that is designed to counter covid 19. If it is effective, without modification, against the mutation that seems to be a major difference between how it works and flu vaccines. You and Deeranged quite rightly point out the change in the way our country is being governed. This is a problem but as exemplified by Deeranged's reference to Czech Republic it is not unique to our country.
I think social media and the concentration of control of it in the hands of 2 or 3 massive corporations is a much more worrying turn of events. It seems to me that people power is just a few clicks away and the type of woke and anti establishment agendas are much nearer the 1984 scenarios. These Big Brothers are much more dangerous than any democratically government IMO.