Uncertain. It’s a word I have used many times to describe the pandemic, and it is still relevant as today’s media confirm.
The newspaper headlines tell it vividly with the most startling, Back to Panic Stations.
As usual, the government’s advisers are cast as gloom-spreading merchants. There is blanket coverage for the Prime Minister’s new ‘plan’.
Like his recent plan for social care reform it is sketchy and indecisive. Typically Johnsonian, it is a combination of dither and hope.
One thing is certain. There is a dangerous winter ahead.
Last year the on-and-off Christmas tale unfolded in the preceding months and it may be no clearer this time.
The government seems as divided as ever on the action to take and is just blundering along, hoping for the best.
Nothing is easy. This pandemic is proving a wily beast which, despite the relief and hope provided by vaccination, has yet to be tamed.
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