Mortality figures do mean something, if the source is reliable. China for that, anyone? Figures for numbers infected give a massive ballpark country by country, but are otherwise useless, as testing regimes are too varied and as we know that many infected people either don't know they're infected, don't want it to get out that they're infected, or can't be arsed. There's an egregious case in Bude at the moment of a very wealthy second-homeowner who has been exposed to the virus in London but who came down yesterday anyway. And was seen chatting upclose and personal to our unsuspecting postman this morning. Multiply pillocks like that by tens of thousands. It don't take many like her, does it? I chatted to our postman this morning after the incident but before I knew about it. I wonder how many other people he's chatted with today...