Not surprisingly. We measure all sorts of things badly in this country. We talk about health in terms of the numbers of nurses and hospital beds, crime in terms of prison places, schools in terms of … (View Post)

And it will have precisely the opposite effect, as no US President would want to be seen to give in to such threats. (View Post)

Without the tracking bracelets you are still back to relying on "good will" and "common sense" to ensure people isolate, and they have manifestly failed. (View Post)

Go back to mid 2020 and try and make the argument that "there's no real point to mass testing". Nobody would even dare to have made that argument. We decided as a country, with across … (View Post)

Exactly, and the targets seemed implausibly ambitious. We now do 800,000 or more PCR tests every single day, and the critics no longer talk about test numbers or turn-around times. The UK's test… (View Post)