No irritation for me Steve, I have no problem with well-presented arguments/opinions, expressed by someone who writes in a literate, educated manner. I don’t question the content of your post because I’m not sufficiently expert to dispute some of the points you make, and because I agree with you on the rest.

FWIW, I’m not ‘irritated’ at all by the thread-drift away from UK politics towards Covid-19, I get Raindog’s point that there’s a political side to a discussion about C-19 here in the UK, and I can’t argue against that.