Yep, it sounds like someone jumped the gun. It is pronounced, especially reading the UK papers, that this is a "plan" and not just in the US. So it isn't just the "Election Variant," though I'm sure it will be used that way.
One weird thing I've seen following the UK mainstream press is that in addition to the all the lock-down and COVID scary, suddenly, out of nowhere, they are shutting down huge numbers of public schools and potentially other places (like hospitals) because of faulty cement used in the 1950s though the 1970s to build them.
Now it is true. This stuff doesn't age well and is starting to collapse. But a week before the school term starts (Monday), hundreds if not thousands of schools are being shut down due to "dangerous" buildings. Many kids are being told to go back to "COVID" type schools online, leaving parents with no babysitting service they need to continue working. Not only that, but hospitals are looking at closing or shutting wards, as are other public buildings.
No one knows why the government waited until the opening of the school year to announce this (again in the United Kingdom) or why it is suddenly so urgent now if it wasn't three weeks ago.
My first thought was along the lines of they realized COVID lockdowns wouldn't work this time (or not fast enough) and for some reason they want to shut things in the UK down now. I have no idea why.
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But you get the point. I hope they did too. 
