I partially agree with that, Steve, but not entirely. You are right about the need to get to the point that we can handle this in the same way as we do flu, and if that means annual injections, so be it. It also means dedicating a proportion of our medical researchers to it, predicting likely variants and designing vaccines, just as we do for flu. That comes with both actual and opportunity costs. Again, so be it.

Where I differ, though, is the 'Never again' aspect. The future is inherently unknowable. SO I will agree we need to get to "Use the funding and resources to do all in our power so it does not happen again." But I can't go that final step, and if variant Nabla arrives which is sufficiently extreme, I would vote for another lockdown.