What has struck me about Covid since Delta (and I know this is purely anecdotal!) is how little correlation there seems to be between people I know who have/haven’t had it, and how ‘careful’ they are. I suspect the risks of everyday interactions are underestimated, and the risks of unusual interacti...

Under your scenario, you want to seriously hamper widespread LFTs by charging for them for some reason. According to The Times (and only a week later!), it appears it’s not such an unthinkable plan after all. My views are obvious: I think this is well overdue. That said, I’ll continue to purchase t...

Widespread PCR testing shouldn't come to an end because someone like yourself arbitrarily decides that enough money has been spent. My objection is not that “enough money has been spent”. I’m happy for money to be spent indefinitely as long as that is the best use of the money. In this case I’m not...

I can’t swallow pills(…) and cavalierly bite into any pill. I had been ticking along fine for years until I chomped into one of those. Never again. I was nearly sick and my mouth felt like it was on fire. In fact it was years ago and I still remember the taste vividly.

Yes, I'm sure all the data gathered from the widespread PCR testing has no scientific value at all... I didn’t say it had “no” value. Nuance seems to get lost online! I questioned whether it was worth the astronomical cost. What do you think the advantages are of widespread PCR testing, as opposed ...

If we're reaching the point where it's not going to kill or hospitalise significant numbers of people, will there really be any reason to keep the endless testing and isolation requirements anyway? To be honest, I’m not sure testing is delivering that much value right now (certainly not enough to j...

I'm not sure wishing for deaths to prove a point is exactly a good look. Well of course, once the NHS *is* overloaded to the point of causing a significant number of excess deaths there is no alternative but to restrict. But I’m talking about the discourse in advance of restrictions. I have rarely ...

They've become far too normalised. Hearing far too many people now who think we should be bringing back restrictions every winter now- if a totalitarian country had been doing that pre-2019 everyone would be seeing it as unacceptable. What’s surprising is that it’s often those on the political left...

Slot availability must be very regional. I booked mine in at a mental health hospital, and was plainly the only one there in half an hour despite it being in Central London. I even got a consulting room rather than a tressle table. On the other hand my arm hurts like hell. Maybe for Dose 4 I’ll just...

I don’t doubt your anxiety or experiences, but I think you’ve been unlucky. The number of people who would say something to a stranger wearing a lanyard is very low. Not zero, but I’ve been out a lot and never seen it happen, and there are at least a few unmasked (and usually +unlanyarded) people on...

Even with people annoyed at the government and likely to ignore restrictions, there's still too many members of the mask vigilante out there for me to feel comfortable. This is horrible to read. You don’t need to, but if I were in your shoes and with this level of anxiety, I’d be going to a private...