While England starts a one month new lockdown today, Wales will will get a taste of greater freedom on Monday.
It has been a rough few months but people generally have accepted it and, let's hope, will start to enjoy life a little more.
For the whole nation the next four weeks will be crucial - how often have we said that? - perhaps paving the way for some form of happy Christmas.
No-one has more at stake than the prime minister whose future seems to be in the balance.
Not that he is likely to throw in his hand - yet - that would be too historic, but it would lessen the tension within the government and the party, giving him breathing space.
In a way, he deserves it despite his failings.
Over the past fraught months no-one could have made all the right moves although they might have at least have been more definite, giving bolder leadership to carry the people with them.
Since he surprisingly convinced the country he was the man to achieve Brexit and lead Britain to an exciting, prosperous future free from the EU his plans have been shattered by coronavirus.
If - and it is a big if - the pandemic is tamed, we may again see the ebullient, optimistic Boris.
A relieved public might start to forgive, if not to forget, his mishandling of the crisis.
And it will be years before the final reckoning and the full story comes out with the public inquiry.
Politics has seen these turnarounds before.
Just think how the hated Mrs Margaret Thatcher was saved when she won the Falklands war.
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