For all the talk about the world and politics being totally changed by Covid, the big three issues in our society in January were a chronically under-capacity healthcare system, terrible housing situation for working people, and the rights of workers being under ceaseless attack.

Second and third are big part of why we‘re heading towards 100 cases a day again and first is why we have to lock down hard and early, the first is why we have to restrict harder and earlier than we might. This crisis hasn’t built character or caused weakness, it’s revealed them.

And don’t even mention direct provision