One thing I notice is how the attitudes of people to Coronavirus changes country by country. In the U.K. there really are a lot of people who think ‘we’re all probably going to get it’. Compared to people in New Zealand or Asia or Finland or Belgium that seems pretty defeatist.

I think the defeatism stems from how we have been presented with the situation. All that talk of slowing the spread rather than suppressing it as in other places. Maybe it is a bit of British pessimism thrown in.

But it seems a bit silly - with such advances in testing and treatment and vaccines under way - to just think ‘well I’m gonna get it anyway’. Suppress, test, trace, isolate, manage, play for time. Rather than risk the death of loved ones I say.

Can’t help thinking we are encouraged to be defeatist in this, so the government can get the economy moving again and we’ll accept a lot of ill people as the price.