30 December

Remember ‘hospitalisations are what matter’? Predictably, now they’re trending up, suddenly that spin has gone a bit quiet. Also predictably, social media is still pretending we’re all living in 2018. As Covid inches closer to your front door, how much do you really understand about what’s going on? The government is furiously suppressing information, trying to hide how bad things are. Soon we won’t even know roughly how many cases there are every day, as they remove much of their own testing. Your kids won’t be fully vaccinated before school goes back in 2022, and there is no ventilation or other safety preparation happening in schools in the holidays. You can pretend it’s 2018, bathing in faux ‘positivity’. It won’t stop Covid coming for you. And Covid isn’t mild.