17 January

Did you know the trials on the vaccines didn’t meaningfully test for either reduction in serious disease, or immunity? They may do both of those things, but it’s likely an enormous amount of guesswork and prayer is going on here. Politicians will want vaccines to be a fast-track back to normal, as always we’ll need to be very wary here. Take the vaccines, but resist any attempt to use them as a silver bullet to relaxing all the public health restrictions.