Last time I heard, about a week ago, the test result reporting-back was less than 10%. The contact-tracing system in this country has been in fatal disrepute for over a year and millions of people have deleted the app. It's useless. But people are grabbing the test kits in droves and are using them (I'm doing my second test this week in just a mo). People are using the tests to regulate their own behaviour, which is very responsible, and know that reporting- back is a waste of time. For almost two years we've been regaled daily on the telly and in the papers with bogus graphs and numbers about infections and deaths. We want to hear about something different now. People were ultra-cautious regarding the pre-Christmas shopping and hospitality. We simply have to trust people to do the right thing from now on. The publicity about omicron (even though some of it was scaremongering - up to 6000 deaths per week, eh, SAGE? My arse!) has been good. That's how it should be. We know what we should be doing. The main danger is the threat to the NHS (half-scuppered by the Tories even before all this started) by staff absence, which will pass, and beds taken up by bloody idiots who refused to be vaccinated. Oh, and a wreck of a care industry which means that people who are ready to be discharged from hospital can't be released. We wear masks pointlessly because we know how behave when told to, but there's not much evidence of social distancing happening any more. This "crisis" is going to happen every winter for the rest of our lives, so we'd better learn to live with it and be normal again.