Good afternoon.
I think it is about timing. Right now infection rates are high because of the testing being done. Relatively few people are being hospitalised with covid, even fewer actually have covid symptoms.
Death rates remain low, currently averaging 37 per day, this is 'Deaths from all causes within 28 days of a +ve covid test...' How many of those 37 died with covid 19 as the primary cause of death? We do not know, PHE will not say.
Historical evidence from hospitals suggest that the numbers who die from covid as the primary cause are just a tiny % of the 'covid related' number, a recent FOI request, one that was answered rather than stalled, from a Birmingham hospital suggested just 3%.
So the government need more time to ramp up the fear factor and see a rise in deaths as always occurs in the autumn, then with much handwringing, we will be locked down again, for a very long time.
Just a prediction of course, I am not privy to government policy, but that is how I expect things to go. What happens next, particularly if the blame is piled on the un-jabbed, could get very nasty indeed.